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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. 1849. Sutter’s Mill. A Swiss army general. Becomes a Mexican citizen. Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA. Had 18,000 head. SUTTER’S MILL. GOLD FEVER. All over the world people dropped what they were doing to go to California. 30,000.

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CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

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  1. CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH 1849

  2. Sutter’s Mill A Swiss army general. Becomes a Mexican citizen. Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA. Had 18,000 head

  3. SUTTER’S MILL

  4. GOLD FEVER All over the world people dropped what they were doing to go to California. 30,000

  5. Almost all of San Francisco’s 900 resident left to chase gold. The city became a temporary ghost town SAN FRANCISCO

  6. The San Francisco area was swarmed with people from all over the world. California Gold… free for the taking!

  7. Past and Present • In 1873 Levi Strauss, a dry goods merchant living in San Francisco, and began to market denim pants

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