What Was The Gold Rush
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Author | : Joan Holub |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013-02-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1101610298 |
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!
Author | : Mark A. Eifler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317910214 |
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.
Author | : Brianna Battista |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2018-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1538341190 |
The California gold rush of 1849 was a defining era in U.S. History. The discovery of gold led to a mass migration to the country's west coast not only from the East Coast, but from all over the world. Travellers thronged to the area in the hope of becoming rich, but the truth is, few did. Many more made a living selling goods and services to the gold miners. This volume is packed with fascinating primary sources that bring the gold rush to life for readers. Readers will view and analyze numerous primary sources, including paintings, handwritten documents, political cartoons, photographs, and more. Sidebars encourage students to ask and answer questions about primary sources surrounding the gold rush.
Author | : Rosalyn Schanzer |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2007-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781426300400 |
The author uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848. Full color.
Author | : Benjamin Mountford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520967585 |
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
Author | : Julie Ferris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780753452189 |
Presents a look at the sites and society that existed in San Francisco during the time of the Gold Rush in the 1850s.
Author | : Christopher Herbert |
Publisher | : Emil and Kathleen Sick Book We |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295744131 |
"The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. And yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: the same people popularly remembered as strait-laced, repressed, and order-loving. How do we make sense of this difference? Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert shows that gold rushers worried about the meaning of white manhood in the near-anarchic, ethnically mixed societies that grew up around the mines. Their anxieties about reproducing the white male dominance they were accustomed to played a central role in the construction of colonial regimes. As white gold rushers flocked to the mines, they encountered a wide range of people they considered inferior and potentially dangerous to white dominance, including Indigenous people, Latin Americans, Australians, and Chinese. The way that white miners interacted with these groups reflected the distinct political principles and strategies of the US and British colonial governments, as well as the ideas about race and respectability the newcomers brought with them. In addition to renovating traditional understandings of the Pacific Slope gold rushes, Herbert argues that historians' understanding of white manliness has been too fixated on the Eastern United States and Britain. In the nineteenth century, popular attention largely focused on the West, and it was in the gold fields and the cities they spawned that new ideas of white manliness emerged, prefiguring transformations elsewhere."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Linda Thompson |
Publisher | : Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2004-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1612364144 |
Discusses The History And Events Of The California Gold Rush.
Author | : Brianna Battista |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2018-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1538341204 |
The California gold rush of 1849 was a defining era in U.S. History. The discovery of gold led to a mass migration to the country's west coast not only from the East Coast, but from all over the world. Travellers thronged to the area in the hope of becoming rich, but the truth is, few did. Many more made a living selling goods and services to the gold miners. This volume is packed with fascinating primary sources that bring the gold rush to life for readers. Readers will view and analyze numerous primary sources, including paintings, handwritten documents, political cartoons, photographs, and more. Sidebars encourage students to ask and answer questions about primary sources surrounding the gold rush.
Author | : Robert Grayson |
Publisher | : ABDO Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1614786070 |
This title examines an important historic event - the gold rush in California. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the first discovery of gold and the creation of boomtowns in the West, issues with the Mexican government, military desertion, expansionism, and the environmental consequences of mining, key characters such as John Sutter, Samuel Brannan, Colonel Richard B. Mason, and President James K. Polk, the roles of journalism, transportation, and racial discrimination, the development of mining technologies and entrepreneurship, and the effects of this event on society. Features include a table of contents, glossary, selected bibliography, Web links, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.