California Gold Rush Essay -- American History

The calcium halcyon RushThe California sumptuous Rush was not every about Americans being happy and rich because of the discovery of gold. Indians, Hispanics, African Americans and Chinese all went through with(predicate) some sort of struggle or conundrum during the meretricious Rush period. Not only did men go through rough times but so did some women. The California Gold Rush was a whole different world within California. Gold turned everyone into nation they were not. In 1847, an Indian scout brought Mr. throng marshall to Maidu. Maidu was a village of Koloma. There, the first nugget was discovered where crowd together marshal make a sawmill. The sawmill was located along the American River. Some people say the first Gold Nugget was found by Indian Jim, whom worked for James Marshall to dig a channel to power the sawmill. However, James Marshall received the credit. Indians were famous for their invention in 1849 of the Long Tom, also cognise as a box which caught gold. Although the Indians worked very hard for John Sutter whom was James Marshalls boss, Indians suffered tremendously. Gold Fever was a common disease which Indians died from in northerly California. Indians also died from violence and starvation. When Indians found gold nuggets, they would trade the nuggets for c readinesshes, blankets or diet for their families. It wasnt the money they wanted. It was the supplies they needed. For a while the Indians were doing well until the year of 1850 which California was at present their jail. Because of the changes the whites were making, there was so much poverty for Indians around this time. Families were so low-down Indian women decided to prostitute themselves. I think this is one of the to the highest degree horrible things anyone can do to degrade themselv... ...erior and controlling about. A lot of people died from trying to survive in a free pastoral because of the way they looked or the color of their skin. Lives were always in danger both way you looked at it. Now days people do leave to go through some discrimination, racial problems or struggles such as being poor. We do not fight over land, we fight for each(prenominal) other or for money. Money is probably the only thing everyone give always cherish because money can help you do anything now. ReferencesMinorities During the Gold Rush. (2000).Retrieved October 18, 2005From http//www.LearnCalifornia.org/doc.asp?id=1933pagetype=content The Story of California From the Earliest Days to the Present. Henry K. Norton. seventh ed. Chicago, A.C. McClure & Co., 1924.Chapter XXIV, pp. 283-296James J. Rawls, and Walton Bean. California. New York McGraw-Hill, 2002