Dr. Eifler presented a compelling story of the Californian Gold Rush to our class using digital and social histories. Eifler brought history to life by transforming 1850’s census data into an evidence-based history. He synthesized newspapers, memoirs, personal letters, and other sources in order to transform numbers into a narrative. Using this narrative, Eifler constructs a multidimensional historical view of mid-nineteenth century Sacramento and provides compelling statistical analysis in order to support his history.
Dr. Eifler’s research in the chapter from his book and his presentation to our class correlate with the Robert William Fogel reading from the Tosh book. In this selection, Fogel writes of “a new brand of ‘scientific’ history…
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The digital history helps advance and support analysis of the social history. The social history evaluates many areas of mid-nineteenth century Sacramento, such as family structures, economic relations, political relations, etc. By engaging in social history, Eifler aims to understand what actually occurred and how persons alive during this time experienced the Gold Rush and Sacramento. Overall, Eifler aims to answer the question, “what happened in Sacramento in the 1850’s?” He explores this question by also questioning the social stratification present within Sacramento, the riots that led to the Land Act of 1851, and the groups of people present within Sacramento during this time. Eifler’s research led him to understand mid-nineteenth Sacramento as a clash between two opposing “Gold Rushes.” The first Gold Rush, he claims, consists of persons who came from the New England and aimed to establish businesses to turn a profit from mass migration toward the west. The other Gold Rush includes farmers from the mid-west. Eifler asserts that disagreements between these two groups caused heavy conflict within Sacramento during the
The essay starts off by stating, “One could say that the dominant scientific world-view going into the 16th century was not all that “scientific” in the modern sense of the
The California Gold Rush is one of the most interesting events in American, as well as, California History. The event gathered many in search of quick riches and opportunity globally. The opportunity of mining stretched American east coast influence to the West coast. Also bringing many from South America, Canada, and the Pacific Islands. Andrew Isenberg wrote, Mining in California: An Ecological History, which gives a detailed account of the California Gold rush and how it affected the California economy as well as California social environment during the 19th century. Isenberg conveys his argument in two parts throughout the book the economic side as well as the social side.
The California Gold Rush left a huge mark on America. In the novel, The Sisters Brothers, written by Patrick deWitt, the Gold Rush had a large effect on transforming Californian lifestyle and its population. This research paper will prove that America was transformed by the 1851 Gold Rush and that this has been portrayed realistically in the novel.
The United States, possibly more than any other country, was not very welcoming during the early 1900s. Foreigners, who were uneducated about America’s customs, were unable to find jobs or prevent swindlers from causing their already insufficient wealth to subside. Because of this, Jurgis and his family’s economic and social lives changed drastically. For insta...
Sylva, Seville A. A Thesis-Foreigners in the California Gold Rush. California: University of Southern California. 1932.
How would feel to be a multimillionaire in just a couple years, but you have to get the Klondike in Alaska. Many people took this challenge either making their fortune or coming up more broke than they already were. The Klondike Gold Rush played a major role in shaping peoples lives and a time in American history. My paper consists of 3 main topics: first, what people had to go through to get there; second, the harsh conditions they had to endure when they got there; and lastly, the striking at rich part or if at all they did get rich.
In the 1993 State level competition in History Day in California Elis Palols received the prestigious Heilbron Award given to the California Historical Society for this paper. In addition she was the CCHS second place winner in senior papers. At the time she was a junior at East Bakersfield High School.
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The Gold Rush was one of the most influential times in California History. During the four years from 1848-1852, 400,000 new people flooded into the state. People from many countries and social classes moved to California, and many of them settled in San Francisco. All this diversity in one place created a very interesting dynamic. California during the Gold Rush, was a place of colliding ideals. The 49ers came from a very structured kind of life to a place where one was free to make up her own rules.
By the second half of the nineteenth century, many people rushed to California including Anglo. It can be said that California was entering an era of “Anglo hegemony”. In this paper, I intend to discuss the reason why they traveled to California, their encounters, their remarkable success as well as the role of sex and gender in helping these newcomers assume control of California.
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...he Gold Rush A Primary Source History of the search for gold in California. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2001. Print.