Gold Rush Unit By dmyamada Jan 24, 1848 James Marshall finds gold at Sutter Creek http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/marshall.htm Feb 2, 1848 The Tready of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/war/wars_end_guadalupe.html May 12, 1848 Sam Brannan announces GOLD is found to all http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_brannan.html Jun 14, 1848 Native Americans represents most of miners http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/sfeature/natives.html Mar 12, 1849 90,000 migrants reach California http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-antebellum/5425 Mar 12, 1850 Foreign Miners' Tax http://immigrationtounitedstates.org/506-foreign-miner-taxes.html May 10, 1850 Government set aside land for Native Americans http://settlersinthewest.weebly.com/native-americans.html Sep 9, 1850 Compromise of 1850 - California becomes a free state http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/california-becomes-the-31st-state-in-record-time Jun 9, 1852 20,000 Chinese immigrants come to California looking for gold Mar 13, 1853 Hydraulic mining was invented http://explore.museumca.org/goldrush/fever19-hy.html Jun 24, 1858 End of the Gold Rush http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/goldrush.html
