Miners and the Gold Rush

Sutter’s MillGold found 1848 Tried to hid discovery

San Francisco Prospectors bombarded city60,000 residence by 1860

California Gold Rush

Outfitting a prospector

Nevada Gold Rush- 1859Virginia City, NV

Silver and Gold foundNext 20 years mined

$400 million in precious metals

Gold Rush sites

Boom TownsIncrease population

= increase need of servicesEntrepreneurs saw

$$$ to be made supplying prospectorsHotelsSalonsGeneral Stores

DiscriminationForeigners

MistreatedForeign miners tax

Anti- Chinese sentimentBoycotts on Chinese

businessesLed to Chinese Exclusion

Act 1882Those already in America

Reapplication for entryDenied citizenship

New immigrantsCould not enter for 10

years