The California Gold Rush

Part I of Essay
“In a small Californian city of Coloma, January 28, 1848, one event occurred that would change the course of world history and American history (Axon 1)”. A new mill (Sutter’s mill) was put up on the American River, and was doing its job of sweeping away the rubble from, t ....

Part II of Essay
.... as “The country the gold-seekers came to was a land of magnificent proportions, of great natural diversity, of extremes and opposites. Nature had done nothing on a small scale” (Seidman 99). California at that time had a population of around 14,000. Not included in these estimates were the 200,000 Native Americans that lived within its borders. Prior to the Mexican War of 1846-1848, California was an isolated northerly province of Mexico. Due to the lack of a large population and association to belong to, some said, “ Politically, tec ....