The Gold Rush
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The gold rush
Definition: Huge immigration west after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848. California's population grew from nearly 14,000 in 1848 to almost 100,000 in1850. Ten years later, the population was 380,000. People from all walks of life came to California, seeking their fortune. The exhaustion of the supply of gold dust forced gold-seekers to dig deepmines in search of the precious metal. The Gold Rush is famous also for encouraging the construction of wagon roads and railroads west. Another development was the great success of farmers, merchants, andothers who sold goods and services to the gold-seekers.
THE CHINESE
by Henry Kittredge Norton
Like every other nation in the world, the Chinese Empire was represented in the great rushfor California which took place during the gold excitement. At the beginning of the year 1849 there were in the state only fifty-four Chinamen. At the news of the gold discovery a steady immigrationcommenced which continued until 1876, at which time the Chinese in the United States numbered 151,000 of whom 116,000 were in the state of California. This increase in their numbers, rapid even incomparison with the general increase in population, was largely due to the fact that previous to the year 1869 China was nearer to the shores of California than was the eastern portion of the United States.Another circumstance which contributed to the heavy influx of Chinese was the fact that news of the gold discovery found southeastern China in poverty and ruin caused by the Taiping rebellion.Masters of vessels made the most of this coincidence of favorable circumstances. They distributed in all the Chinese ports, placards, maps and pamphlets with highly colored accounts of the golden hills ofCalifornia. The fever spread among the yellow men as it did among others, and the ship-men reaped a harvest from passage money.
Probably the most conspicuous characteristic of the Chinese is their...
The gold rush
Definition: Huge immigration west after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848. California's population grew from nearly 14,000 in 1848 to almost 100,000 in1850. Ten years later, the population was 380,000. People from all walks of life came to California, seeking their fortune. The exhaustion of the supply of gold dust forced gold-seekers to dig deepmines in search of the precious metal. The Gold Rush is famous also for encouraging the construction of wagon roads and railroads west. Another development was the great success of farmers, merchants, andothers who sold goods and services to the gold-seekers.
THE CHINESE
by Henry Kittredge Norton
Like every other nation in the world, the Chinese Empire was represented in the great rushfor California which took place during the gold excitement. At the beginning of the year 1849 there were in the state only fifty-four Chinamen. At the news of the gold discovery a steady immigrationcommenced which continued until 1876, at which time the Chinese in the United States numbered 151,000 of whom 116,000 were in the state of California. This increase in their numbers, rapid even incomparison with the general increase in population, was largely due to the fact that previous to the year 1869 China was nearer to the shores of California than was the eastern portion of the United States.Another circumstance which contributed to the heavy influx of Chinese was the fact that news of the gold discovery found southeastern China in poverty and ruin caused by the Taiping rebellion.Masters of vessels made the most of this coincidence of favorable circumstances. They distributed in all the Chinese ports, placards, maps and pamphlets with highly colored accounts of the golden hills ofCalifornia. The fever spread among the yellow men as it did among others, and the ship-men reaped a harvest from passage money.
Probably the most conspicuous characteristic of the Chinese is their...
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