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The Gold Rush
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The Gold Rush
Gold Rush Politics
- The Gold absoulty speed up California admission to the Union as The 31st state.
Gold Rush Politics
California mines
- In the late 1849,California try to enter the Union with a counsition that barred the sountern system of racial Slavery causing a crisis in congress between supporters of slavery and anti-salvery politicians .
California mines
- Acording to the compromsie of 1850, presented by kentucky senator Herny Clay, California was authrorize to enter as a free state , while the territories of Utah and New Mexico were left to determinne the legal status of slavery for themselfs.
Californias Mines
- After 1850 , the surface godl in Californa mostly vanish, even as mines comtines to arrive. Minning had always been back-breaking and dangresous empolyment, and shrinking it rich required good luck as much as ablity and hardwork.
Califronas Mines
Califonia Mines
- Thuush gold mining cntined thraustout the 1850's it had its peack by 1852, where some $81 minnlion was pulled from the froud. After than year, the total declined gradully leveling off to around $45 mililon per year by 1857.Settement in california countied however by the end of the decade it the popultion was 328,000
California mines
- A gold became more and more difficult to get,the expaned industlization of minning drove more and more miners from independence in wage labor. The new Twchique of hydrulic minning,advanced in 1853,brought enormous profits but tear down much of regions landscspes
Impact of Gold Rush
Impact of the Gold Rush
- New mining methods and the population boom in the wake of the California Gold Rush permanetly improve the landscape of Cailfornia. The technique of hydraulic mining brought huge profits but destroyed much of region's landscape.
- In 1884, hydrulic mining was ban byt a court order an soon agriculture became the controlling industry in California, and it reamins so today, while a few mines and Gold Rush towns remain much of the heritage of that era is preserved at places such as Bodie State HIstoric Parks.
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