The California Gold Rush affected not only California, but also the entire outcome of our nation. It created the expansion of our nation into Western America and California. It brought one of the largest and maybe craziest mass migrations in human history. It brought hundreds of thousands of Americans (and foreigners) to flock to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada's with hopes of striking it rich. Yet an extreme few of the many of amateur miners even struck it rich. The gold rush shaped California history. It gave California it's motto, "Eureka" which means, "I've found it", pertaining to the finding of gold. Although it was the first of it's kind, it would not be the last of it's kind in American history.

The California Gold Rush began on a small mill on the American River at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, on a property of John Sutter. John Sutter was a Swiss who'd come to Mexican California with his eye on its potential agricultural wealth. He had purchased the small plot of land next to the river to build the mill for him. However Marshall soon encountered a problem that the river was not deep enough to power the mill. Marshall then decided to

deepen the river in order to allow the mill to be constructed. However in this process he made one of the most influential discoveries in our history, he discovered on January 24, 1848, a small fragment of gold no larger than a pearl. That small fragment of gold gave birth to the dream that was pursued for half of a century. The discovery could not have come any sooner, because within nine days California was turned over to the United States as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which formally ended the Mexican war. With the discovery of gold on his mill Sutter first told all the workers to try to keep quiet about it until they finished the mill. However that did not happen, and word quickly spread about the discovery of gold in the American river. Soon as word spread, hundreds of people from everywhere were rushing in to claim a stake in the rush for gold. All work stopped, all except the manufacturing of shovels and pickaxes. One of the main people to become wealthy from selling gold fever items was a man named Sam Brennan. Once he heard the news he knew it was going to be big and invested all his time and money into his store. Whenever anyone wanted to mine for gold, one of their only options was to go to Mr. Brennan because he had bought up all the needed mining materials. He became a wealthy man to say the least. The rush was so enormous that both the Californian and the California Star located in the Sacramento area ceased to exist since all the editors from the paper had rushed to seek a fortune of gold. The news of the gold rush in California slowly spread across the nation.

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