The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000 (compared with the pre-1848 figure of less than 1,000). A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852.
On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. At the time, Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter, a German-born Swiss citizen and founder of a colony of Nueva Helvetia (New Switzerland). (The colony would later become the city of Sacramento.) As Marshall later recalled of his historic discovery: “It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold.”
Though Marshall and Sutter tried to keep news of the discovery under wraps, word got out, and by mid-March at least one newspaper was reporting that large quantities of gold were being turned up at Sutter’s Mill. Though the initial reaction in San Francisco was disbelief, storekeeper Sam Brannan set off a frenzy when he paraded through town displaying a vial of gold obtained from Sutter’s Creek. By mid-June, some three-quarters of the male population of San Francisco had left town for the gold mines, and the number of miners in the area reached 4,000 by August.
As news spread of the fortunes being made in California, the first migrants to arrive were those from lands accessible by boat, such as Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), Mexico, Chile, Peru and even China. Only later would the news reach the East Coast, where press reports were initially skeptical. Gold fever kicked off there in earnest, however, after December 1848, when President James K. Polk announced the positive results of a report made by Colonel Richard Mason, California’s military governor, in his inaugural address. As Polk wrote, “The accounts of abundance of gold are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service.”
Answer:
1 guiding international commerce
2 expanding trade with other countries
3 increasing the size of the US economy
5 resolving disputes in the global economy
6 providing humanitarian assistance
Explanation:
The US is the greatest economic potential in the world, which makes its foreign policy a matter of enormous relevance. Because of its relevance, the US is involved in virtually all foreign trade matters as a leading country capable of stimulating, expanding and directing foreign trade. Consequently, this makes the American economy bigger and stronger. In addition, the US also to acts to mediate conflicts that may compromise the stability of the economic and financial system, and still act as a major provider of humanitarian aid to developing countries.
Answer: They gave evidence to his assertion that forest logging was on the rise
Explanation:
John Muir was one of America's most famous environmentalists. He was known as the Father of National Parks due to his influence in the setting up of National Parks by the Federal Governments to protect forests and its inhabitants.
John Muir wrote a couple of articles on the need to preserve forests in the United States including ''Hunting Big Redwoods'' where he talked about how rare and old some of these trees were. He spoke of how people had began to cut trees in larger numbers and how more and more forests were now subjected to logging since the Colonists arrived in America.
The map supports his assertion by showing how there are more areas of forest being logged in 1920 than 270 years earlier in 1650.
In time a fifth group was added to the cast system-- the untouchables is the correct answer.