Who Rushed for California Gold?

 

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Oneal, Malynda

7/2/2011

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 1.  What impact did the gold rush have on the Native Americans?
The Native Americans were hunted and killed by the forty-niners.  The Indian population declined dramatically between 1848 & 1856.  The forty-niners wanted to eradicate the Indians and the Indians eventually found a remote part of California to basically stay out of the way.

2. What were some reasons the Chinese faced extreme prejudice?

 The Chinese faced extreme prejudice because they were known as devious and were not liked by the Anglo-Americans.  Anglo-Americans feared the Chinese would undercut labor and drive it from our country.  Any Chinese that showed up in mining communities were attacked.  There were even lynchings of Chinese in small mining camps by forty-niners. 

3. How did the gold rush change California?

The gold rush brought many people to California.  The crowds of people that came to California included many nationalities from all over the world.  Businesses sprang up from the new population and also to extact the gold with machines.   California for the first time was becoming populated instead of being a remote place with mostly Indians. 

 4. Did the gold rush cause more harm and debt than it did riches? Was it ultimately good for the development of the western United States or detrimental?
The gold caused more ham than good because very few people became rich.  The gold rush created a very greedy and monster like behavior in people.  The gold rush was good in one way, because it brought a diverse population to California and a large population which was able to then settle this remote area.  The population in some way was harmful as in the mistrust that people had for each other because of the gold rush.  This new population of people was far from a community that could work together but instead a mistrusting group that would to this day create small areas within large cities where they would stick together by nationality.