Environmental Impact. The Gold Rush had an effect 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.
A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged droughts, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear disasters.
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of today's United States. Historians worked a lot to trace the route of his expedition. It started in 1539. in Florida: de Soto landed his ships in Tampa Bay. In 1540., they continued to move north-east, through today's Georgia, having heard the gold being mined "towards the sun's rising". The expedition continued trough present-day South Carolina and then to north, across Appalachian Mounthains of North Carolina, and after that entered Tennessee. In 1941. de Soto and his expedition turned westwards, and reached river Mississippi. De Soto was the first European man that crossed Mississippi. They continued trough modern-day Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and later returned to Mississippi. De Soto died in 1942.
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During the Great Depression, many families received food
from the bread lines.
The Great Depression left the nation devastated. Families were financially
unable to scrape up money for their next meal. Breadlines and soup
kitchens were established as charitable organizations giving free bread and
soup to the impoverished.
