HISTORY 142A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: California Gold Rush, Southern Pacific Transportation Company
Document Summary
Audio recording started: 10:01 am monday, january 29, 2018. There"s lots of visual documents from this time. Important month: when a worker named james marshall discovers gold in upper fork of american river. They find out that it"s gold and they want to keep it as quiet as possible but it doesn"t stay quiet for too long. About 10 months later, james k. polk announces the gold rush in congress. Because a lot of rumors had been flying around worldwide. For decades before, people would announce gold rush everywhere but there were a lot of false rumors. He felt like as president, he needed to stamp this as an actual thing. Saying that it"s legit that there"s a phenomenal amount of gold. Saying that the rumors that make people question whether or not to go to. What happens is one of largest gold strikes in the world. Billions upon billions of dollars worth of gold gets discovered.
