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This gold was found when James W. Marshall started to build Sutter's Mill on John Sutter's land. This eventually led people from around the world to come to California. -
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California is growing very quickly because of the Gold Rush, this happened so fast that it became a US state in 1850.
After they became a state they had to create the California Constitution. -
Gold mining is at a record high and a total of 81 million dollars worth of gold is found this year alone. -
They created this method because they started running out of easily found gold. This caused the once-pretty landscapes to be destroyed. -
Sluice boxes are invented by Edward Mattison. Sluice boxes helped the miners pan for gold easier. Which led to a lot more miners finding gold and increasing the number of people that went to California. -
Comstock Lode is one of the most successful silver finds in US history, and it all was by accident. People were looking for gold and ended up finding hundreds of millions of dollars in silver. This event also helped create more efficient mining techniques. -
Farming and Mining companies started fighting and this started to cause problems. So then in the mid-1870s, the Californian government realized that farming was a lot more profitable, so they decided to pass laws to discourage mining along rivers.
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When Hydraulic mining was outlawed, it caused California to become a primarily agricultural state.