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Gold Rush
Created by
luke
⟶ Updated 6 months ago ⟶
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Events
California Sparsely Populated (1,000 People)
General Store Opens at Sutter's Mill
Gold Discovered at Sutter's Mill
California Becomes Territory
San Francisco Newspaper Reports Gold
All San Francisco Men Seeks Gold
Samuel Brannan's Store Booms
Gold Rushers Arrive by Ship from around Cape Horn
Forty-Niners Arrive (90,000 new miners)
California Requests Statehood
San Francisco's Population Booms (went from 1,000 to 30,000 people)
California Becomes a State
Miner's Earnings Fall from $20/day to $6/day
