1 gen 1848 anni - Gold found in California; gold rush

Descrizione:

Americans, Mexicans, Chileans, Hawaiians, British, and others rushed to Cali for gold from its rivers and streams.

Effects: San Francisco became an overnight boomtown, Few became rich and many died of diseases and others left to farm (agricultural machinery and scores of hired workers, California farmers produced huge crops of wheat and barley, which San Francisco merchants exported to Europe at high prices. The gold rush turned into a wheat boom.) or hydraulic or underground mining, while others partook in vigilantism, racial conflicts (Chinese and malaysian immigrants, Mexicans, Californios), and deliberately tried to exterminate Cali's Native peoples (Mexican grantees and Native people had most farmland that failed to miners wanted)(diseases) (murders like Yuki ppl)(slavery)(SA/domestic slavery of Native women)(Congress made treaties with Native groups to steal their land and force them on small reservations w.out military protection)

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