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The 1849 California Gold Rush: Special Video Episode With Guest! · Kids Learning Lab - Science, History, and Technology for Kids and Family

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  Welcome to Kids Learning Lab, a learning podcast made just for
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  kids. In this episode, we'll be
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  learning about the California Gold Rush of 1849, in which
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  hundreds of thousands of people rushed to California to find
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  gold in Sacramento. In this episode, we have a
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  special guest, Miss Margaret Rockdale, who will help us learn
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  more about the Gold Rush. But before we get to the
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  interview, let's learn a little more about the Gold Rush.
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  Most people did not travel by land to get to California.
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  Here's an ad from 1850 advertising the Clipper ship
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  from the harbor of Boston, MA to San Francisco, CA.
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  But before I tell you more about the ship routes, let's learn
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  about the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was built in
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  the 1900s and connected to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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  However, the Gold Rush had been 50 years before the Panama
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  Canal, so people had to sail below the tip of South America,
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  as seen in the map here. If you look on the map, you can
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  see a green line in the middle of North America and South
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  America. That's where the Panama Canal is
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  today. The purple line shows the ship
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  route people going to the Gold Rush had to take.
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  If they had the canal, they could have saved a lot of time.
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  But what was the gold rush? Who discovered the gold rush?
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  To learn more about the California Gold Rush, let's
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  start the interview. So can you tell us a little
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  about yourself and how you became interested in teaching
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  history? Yes.
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  So my name is Mark Arco and I've been a teacher about 9 years all
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  together teaching who was Alison and I was interested in growing
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  up and once I got to 7th grade where we stayed in medieval
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  history, history became 3. When I teach mystery, I come
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  live meaning that I'm most and then other and it's hopeful
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  being myself OK? So why should people learn about
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  the Gold rush today? It helps us understand lasting
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  social, economic and environmental consequences of
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  the rapid development of the West.
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  OK, so now let's start and learn about the early Gold Rush.
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  So what was life like in California before the Gold Rush?
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  California was a diverse, sparsely populated region
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  dominated by California Indians. Once the California emission
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  system was started, economy changed from 1 based on hunt
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  gathering, 1. Based on farming, the swimming.
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  The California Indians lived in Waltz in the ways of life,
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  taking away from them. Don't Mexico wins independence
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  from Spain controlled California and secularized so that they
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  were no longer the economy then changed from 1 based farming to
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  be based on ranching and created especially was given away as
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  land grants where most of the California Indians lived and
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  were teachers from the United States started once fur traders
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  traveled further W to find more people to meet.
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  OK, so how did news about gold spread so quickly across the
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  country? Well, a man named Stan Brandon
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  traveled from San Tisco to diploma see if the stories about
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  gold being found were true. When he returned to the city, he
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  held up a bottle of silver spoon dust invented St. sailing gold
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  gold gold from near American River.
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  What was the stories were proven true in the United States and
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  liberal world? Can't California cricket rich by
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  finding gold? OK, so who first discovered gold
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  in California? James Marshall, who was a
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  Carpenter hired by John I guess the sawmill found gold on the
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  banks of the New York River in Coloma, CA on January 24th,
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  1848. So what was daily life like for
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  miners during the gold rush? Miners stayed in mining camps
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  where they would rest, eat food. These mining camps were used as
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  protection wind and cold weather.
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  Despite the trash, the miners would entertain themselves by
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  art books if we could find them, playing music and songs, being
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  on top of them. Sunday is usually our day of
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  rest mining. They would be spent doing other
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  tours. Miners often worked six days a
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  week, and many got up before dawn and actually moved to jerk
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  to see. So did women or children play
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  roles in the gold rush, and if So, what were they?
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  Women ran businesses and some mined for gold themselves.
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  Women found opportunities in cooking, laundry and hotels,
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  where they often would make money or make more money than
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  the miners. Children assisted with pores
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  like gathering wood, intending to camp, while some worked
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  alongside the digging. So why did some people get rich
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  while most miners didn't? Only some people were able to
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  actually get rich in the gold rush because it was so difficult
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  to find gold due to the fact that they required so much
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  physical labor. Even though not everyone was in
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  it were too quickly. Many minors decided to stay in
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  California. Those decided to stay in
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  California. It's not opportunity to spread
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  new businesses based on the fact that there was a fool's
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  philanthropistic necessities. Levi Strauss entrepreneur
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  created new jeans with Taylor named Stricken Davis, who
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  designed the jeans and last a long time.
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  The jeans were made and had metal at the corners of the
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  Parkinson's shop. It wasn't just an Asian or like
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  in California for nerds, African Americans like kids also
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  starting to resist. He opened a shoe store at
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  Sanskrit and Cold Rush at the Mirror of the Tax First
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  newspaper and California's Americans.
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  And he also used some of the money he carried or earned by
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  the Freedom African American schools.
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  OK. And how did the gold rush affect
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  immigration and diversity in California?
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  Because a lot of people in California are diverse these
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  days. Yes, because so many people
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  looking from all over the world to California during the gold
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  rush, population became very divert.
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  There were some miners who felt that only people from the United
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  States had the right search for gold.
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  They threatened to harm you to bring Star Wars class laws that
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  will move their rights. So how did the Gold Rush shape
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  California's culture and economy?
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  Overall, because of the fact that people from all over the
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  world being the California to the before gold, California's
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  population became more diverse. There were people of nearly
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  every race, religion, and hacker in California during this time.
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  These immigrants from around the world were at different key
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  students Language most people lied to people groups means
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  their concepts. The gold rush changed the
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  economy house traditions due to a sensible rich.
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  There are many people or many workers that mined gold while
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  other started businesses that provided goods services to the
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  miners and other consumers. So if you were alive in 1849,
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  would you go to California for the gold rush or would you
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  search for gold or do something else?
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  If I were alive in 39 going to California, the gold rush and
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  intrigue me because the opportunities to get rich.
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  However, even if I wasn't able to get rich time for gold, I was
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  still when you go to California, like you potentially have a
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  better life. What my life was like before and
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  having the chance to start to having the chance to still make
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  business or passionate about. OK.
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