My great great great great grandpa, Thomas Doyel was in charge of putting a group of men together to go to the Gold Rush. They had 15 groups who traveled with wagons and horses with cattle following. They went through training before they went to the Gold Rush, which was them rounding up cattle. They also practiced making a corral out of wagons and putting the cattle in it so the Indians couldn't get them. One time the indians came and the chief stopped right in front of Thomas's wagon. Thomas drew his gun on the indian and told him that if he moved he would put a hole through him. The Chief knew that if he ordered his indians to go any further he would get killed. After some talking the indian and Thomas agreed to let everyone go and there would be peace so the chief ordered his men to move on. They had to …show more content…
They traveled with a little less cattle and got to the Gold Rush. Another time coming home from the Gold Rush Thomas came home alone on the ship with all of his gold. A storm came upon him which caused the boat to almost sink. To keep going he had to empty all of his gold into the water so when he got back to Arkansas he was empty handed and all of his hard work was for nothing. Thomas after the Gold Rush joined Confederate Army but then returned from the war with Tuberculosis. He was in poor health up until the day he died. When the Gold Rush started they didnt have a law regarding property rights so anyone could go and look for gold wherever they wanted. The Gold Rush was very hit and miss. You have people like my great great great grandpa who got lots of gold and then losses it on the journey home and then you have people that where very wealthy from the Gold Rush. The Gold Rush actually had a big part in why california was called the "golden state". "The population of San Francisco exploded from perhaps about 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 full-time residents by 1850"
John Augustus Sutter was born in Baden, Switzerland on the 15th of February in 1803. Sutter is the reason for the California Gold Rush that began in 1848. Sutter had a fort called “New Helvetia” beginning in 1842 that ended quickly in 1844. A man named James Wilson Marshall was planning to build John Sutter a water-powered sawmill, when he came across flakes of gold in the American River near Coloma, California in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This Discovery happened on January 24th in 1848 causing the town to have no till afterwards. Once the discovery got out it was soon the center for merchants and miners. In John Sutter’s earlier years, he claimed to have had a military background being a captain in the Royal Swiss Guard to the French King.
These two passages “There’s Still Gold in These Hills” and “Letter From a Gold Miner” help the reader understand the history and process of gold mining in the US. Both passages give detailed information, specific instructions, and an interesting background about gold mining. These passages use different strategies to help the reader perceive the history and process. These strategies may include using specific dates of when the gold rush took place, information to help the reader picture the setting of where to find gold, and also teaches the process step by step.
An important figure in pioneering of the old southwest was the trader. The men of these days who became traders were the men who forged the way for the settlers, made peace with many Indians and even fought intertribal wars with the Indians. During a time when the Spaniards in Florida were trying to pull together Indian tribes in the Spanish and French territories to fight the English settlers, the trader was a man who was able to prevent this from happening. The trader, being friends with groups of Indians, was warned of such attacks by his Indian allies and he was then able to gather warriors to defend settlements. It was important to the trader to keep Indian allies such as the Chickasaws, the Iroquois, and a large majority of the Creek tribe.
The gold rush from 1848 to 1855 really help encompassed the settlement and foundation to the compromise. The whole compromise was based on not just obtaining Texas after the Mexican-American war, but it was in direct connection with being balances in free and slave states. Along with the gold being in the state’s land there were also many things that California offered to the over all wealth of the Union with its access to water on ibe border. This balance and equality in power were the two main things the compromise addressed in the final product. Manifest Destiny was reached and occupied the land making profit from the railroads and obtained land while others decided to us, equality in power, money and land was all achieved with the five bills. More settlement throughout the west was obtained by the settlers giving more opportunity to build railroads, towns and trading routes. This five bills together really helped improve with the settling of the west in Manifest
What do you think of when you hear the term “Gold Rush”? The 1849 gold rush in California?
From the period between the 1870’s through the 1890’s, it became an era known as the Gilded Age. The term was characterized by a famous American Literature author named Mark Twain. The writer tried to point out that the term means that while on the outside society may seem perfect and in order, underneath there is poverty, crime, corruption, and many other issues between American society’s rich and poor. This era’s gild is thicker than the cheaper material it’s covering. This can be shown through the countless numbers of achievements and advances America has made during the period of reconstruction and expansion, industrialization, and foreign affairs.
Chief Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribes knew of the plan and set a trap for the army regiment and killed all of them. This battle was one of the greatest victories for the Native American’s.
On the seventh day of June, they were at the Red River, which John Finley had recently been trading with the Indians. From the top of the mountains, they saw the beautiful land of Kentucky. They stayed in this area where they built shelters to cover them from the weather. The men found this area loaded with wildlife, so they were never short on food. They practiced their hunting skills here and got really good.
How would feel to be a multimillionaire in just a couple years, but you have to get the Klondike in Alaska. Many people took this challenge either making their fortune or coming up more broke than they already were. The Klondike Gold Rush played a major role in shaping peoples lives and a time in American history. My paper consists of 3 main topics: first, what people had to go through to get there; second, the harsh conditions they had to endure when they got there; and lastly, the striking at rich part or if at all they did get rich.
There have been many discoveries that have shaped our nation as a whole. Discoveries have allowed our country to thrive and become one of the most powerful nations in the world. When we look back at our nation's rich history, it is clear to see that there was one discovery in particular that had a vast impact on the United States; the discovery was gold in California. It was in this vastly unoccupied territory that the American dream was forever changed and California emerged as a powerful state busting at the seams. The California Gold Rush shaped California into the state that it is today. California is defined by its promise of entrepreneurial success and its acceptance and encouragement of obtaining the American Dream.
The federal government created Oregon Territory on August 14, 1848. The area of the new jurisdiction included what we know as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana today. Finding gold in California in 1848 started a large migration westward of people, and the settlement of Oregon Territory was promoted by the passage of the Donation Land Claims Act of 1850, which gave 160 acres to any U.S. citizen who agreed to stay on his or her land for five years.
California, the place to turn cant’s into cans and dreams into plans. The same situation and scenarios apply to today and even over one hundred and sixty five years ago. Then and now are not so different, people are thriving or failing from the land of plenty, supplying themselves with knowledge, wealth, or skill to either spread their wings and take flight or crash and burn. Each state in the United States of America has a correlating nickname to either why it’s famous or an explanation of its history. California’s state name is The Golden State, and going all the way back to 1849 is why this was such an influential time for California and all of America. This is the period of the Gold Rush. Reasons why this event was so impeccable, to the development of California, are the years leading up to the discovery, the first findings, the journey, and so much more.
Several Native Americans from the Cherokee tribe had feared that the whites would encroach upon their settlements in the near future so they moved west of the Mississippi many years before the Indian Removal Act was put into place. This good foresight and early movement allowed for them to pick the time that they wanted to leave and they allowed themselves the leisure of moving at their own pace and stopping when they wanted which cut down on casualties extremely and this also allowed them to allocate the appropriate amount of supplies for the trip before attempting to make it prematurely and causing catastrophe to hit. They established a government and worked out a peaceful way of life with the nearby surroundings and allowed themselves to blend into the area that they desired rather than an area that was designated for them. There was always a large tension building between the whites and Cherokee which had reached its climax after the discovery of gold in Georgia. This drove a frenzy that many people wanted in on to make out with a good sum of money as gold was in high demand and worth a lot at the time. When the gold was found it started a miniature gold rush and pulled in whites and
The Gold Rush was one of the most influential times in California History. During the four years from 1848-1852, 400,000 new people flooded into the state. People from many countries and social classes moved to California, and many of them settled in San Francisco. All this diversity in one place created a very interesting dynamic. California during the Gold Rush, was a place of colliding ideals. The 49ers came from a very structured kind of life to a place where one was free to make up her own rules.
In the Sacramento Valley In early 1848 during the Mexican-American War a carpenter named James.W Marshall from New Jersey found pieces of gold in the American River at base of Sierra,Nevada near Coloma(town in California).He found a trailrace (a big wheel to find gold)he tried to make more trailraces made by John Sutter to find tons of more gold. Time past and The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed and ended the war.James W.Marshall tried to keep his discovery a secret he didn’t want to the word to get out so keep the gold to himself but the word got out. December 1848 President James K.Polk announced that the rumours are true and then miners discovered over 750,000 pounds of gold.