Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Blog - notes

Gold Rush

  • Only 20,000 people in CA in 1848
  • John Marshall found GOLD - near a sawmill in John Sutter's property 
  • Soon, everyone came to San Francisco

  • 1849 - forty niner
  • 70,000 people move to CA, 20,000 Chinese
  • two years - 200,000 people
  • 1850 - the 31st state 
  • Anti-Chinese poster

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