California Gold RushBy: Zoe Dubin, Bria Bowman, Jaclyn Piccari, Becky Toll, Samantha Peck

John Sutter• Immigrant from Switzerland • Born on February 15, 1803• Married Annette B’deld

Beginning The mayor of California sells Sutter land

Gold found by Swiss immigrant John Marshall

The California gold Rush begins in 1848!

population 14,000 residents by

1848

100,000 residents by 1849

200,000 residents by 1852

California became a state in 1850

Residents mostly unmarried men

Woman= 5% population

“Forty- niners”: people who traveled to California in 1849 to find gold

African Americans African Americans also took part in the gold

rush

They were enslaved or free

Chinese California gold rush brought in Europeans

and Asians

Asians=10% population in 1852(mainly labored as minors)

Disasters Flood of immigrants was a disaster for the

Native Americans

Gold rush brought wealth to pacific coastal cities

Many strikes

Down fall Ghost town- abandoned town due to lack of

economic activity

Headlines about the gold rush were sent out in country and oversea

People traveled upriver and overland to get to mines