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吉林大学远程教育学院

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Californian Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in the sawmill on the South Fork of the American River at Coloma, which led to a concerted rush to the place. Within a few months one of the greatest international migrations of all time was on. People poured into California by land and sea, among them were Chinese. The land was booming. By 1852, its population had grown to nearly 250,000 from 800 in 1848. It was a time of violence and lawlessness, for some of the immigrants were reckless and unruly thieves, holdup men, gamblers and outlaws. From the mid-1850’s, the yield of the gold mines declined, but the discovery of rich deposits in Nevada in 1859 and the opening of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 encouraged the influx of more immigrants.