1. What is the relationship between Americans and the land?
Gold Rush
What is the relationship between Americans and the land?

2. What was the gold rush?
History Channel Video
America: Story of Us

3. What was the gold rush?
In 1848 gold was found in the ground at Sutter’s Mill
In two years over 100,000 miners travelled West to California in search of gold
Small towns sprung up out of nowhere
The gold rush attracted people from all over the United States including immigrants

4. Vocabulary Prospector: people who looked for gold
claim: a piece of land chosen by a miner on which he or she searched for gold
boomtown: a town that springs up in a deserted place so that miners will have some place to live
forty-niner: a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849
gold fever: greed and the contagious excitement of the gold rush
ghost town:: Thinking about the effect that

5. What impact did mining have on California’s physical environment?
The images in this group show mines, miners at work, and the tools they used.
They also illustrate the effect of the mines and the mining industry on California's landscape.
Rivers were dammed or became clogged with sediment, forests were logged to provide needed timber, and the land was torn up — all in pursuit of gold.

6. Hydraulic Method of Mining

13. Environmental Impact
The Gold Rush was positive for California in many ways...
...however, it had a devastating effect on the state’s environment

14. http://www. calisphere. universityofcalifornia