Gold Rush Influence on Western America.
Title: Gold Rush Influence on Western America.
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 1494 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gold Rush Influence on Western America.
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 1494 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
In the early 1840's, California was a distant area that only a few Americans had seen. San Francisco had barely a few hundred residents. One of the wealthiest people in the region was John Sutter. He was a Swiss immigrant who came to California in 1839 to build his own private empire. He built a fort, gathered 12,000 cattle, and took hundreds of workers. He owed money to creditors but still had a dream of owning a "
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In the 1840's, only a few hundred people lived in San Francisco. During the gold rush, the city averaged thirty new houses and two murders each day. A plot of San Francisco real estate only cost sixteen dollars in 1847. Only a year and a half later, the same plot of land cost 45,000 dollars. Gold proved to lure people from all over the world. The west became the "envy of the world"- Sam Brannan.