Films about theCalifornia Gold Rush (1848–1855). The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people toCalifornia from the rest of the United States and abroad.[1] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood, in theCompromise of 1850. The Gold Rush had severe effects onNative Californians and accelerated the Native American population's decline from disease, starvation and theCalifornia Genocide.
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