The California Gold rush was a world wide excitement. People from all over the country and the World even rushed to California in 1849 in hope to gain a fortune. People got "gold fever", and expected gold to be pouring out of rivers. Many men came and left with nothing. The Gold rush started in 1849 when James Marshall (shown left) who was hired as a field worker for John Shutter (shown right) found a piece of metal a river in Sacramento, California. He brought it to Shutter, tested it and found out it was gold!
Shutter wanted to keep it a secret because he didn't want his workers leaving the fields. He told Marshall to keep it a secret, but word got out!!! By late 1848, news was spread across the nation. Many people came with high hopes, but instead of gold found riverbanks overflowing with people. Some people started businesses selling tools and supplies to the minors where they made more money than the gold searchers. In 1859 the minors left to Nevada where silver had been discovered.
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