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To the region, new towns were built. Towns like San Francisco grew quickly.People did not want the Chinese and Latin American people to live in their town. The white people did not want them to live there because they thought it would be bad for their town.In California, as the population grew, people became more and more anti-immigrant. The state government started taxing and making laws that targeted immigrants.As more and more white people settled in America, the violence against Native Americans became worse. Peter Hardeman Burnett, the first governor of California, wanted to remove Native Americans. He was not pleasant to them, and he wanted them gone.Under Burnett’s leadership, the state of California paid money to white people in exchange for the scalps of Native Americans. The result of this was that people who lived in mines and farms formed vigilante groups to kill off California’s native population. By 1890, they were almost gone.ConsequencesIn California, the Gold Rush had a big effect. It lasted from 1848 to 1855.It didn’t take long to find all of the gold that was left in the dirt. As mining techniques became more complex, gold became a big business. As the mining industry grew, individual gold-diggers could not compete with how big it had become. The mines were just too big.Read more about Westward ExpansionSourceshttps://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849https://www.britannica.com/topic/California-Gold-Rushhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-california/https://www.nps.gov/cali/learn/historyculture/california-gold-rush.htmhttps://www.coloma.com/california-gold-discovery/history/california-gold-rush/https://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/gold-rush/P.S. If you enjoyed what you read and are a teacher or tutor needing resources for your students from kindergarten all the way up to high school senior (or even adults!), check out our partner sites KidsKonnect, SchoolHistory, and HelpTeaching for hundreds of facts, worksheets, activities, quizzes, courses, and more!
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