HIST 201 Lecture 2: Feb 12
5 Apr 2016
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Race and exclusion in the california gold rush. Gold brought capital and capitalism to the west and helped spur the region"s rapid economic transformaion. Brought an unprecedented number of people to california, from across the globe. Gold rush migraions created social conlicts that shaped poliics in the west for decades to come. Suter"s mill (1848) (creaing imber, and someone discovered gold) Problem 1) myth: they were poor, salt-of-the-earth, hardscrabble miners. Migraion: travelling to the mother lode could take anywhere between 3 and 6 moths and cost upwards of , more than a year"s worth of wage. Best way was to take a steam ship from new york to panama, then another ship to san francisco. Supplies and provisions could cost another few hundred dollars. Needed to spend a lot of money to get there and stay alive with provisions and supplies and travel. It was largely middle-class males, many from eastern ciies, who made the journey to.
