Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold wa
But also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. Until then this had been an area really beyond the line of settlement. But suddenly now the White Settlement catches up very quickly. Here is the governor, george gilmore, describing what it was like meeting the georgia miners in 1829. Many thousands of idle people flocked into georgia from every point of the compass whose pe
They locht it. Nuggets come up with a defensive play. Murray. They miss the layup. Gobert got it. Mitchell hanging at the other end. Two seconds to go. For the win and it rims out denver hangs on announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. Thats how i feel, too. Lets go im calling it Tony Dokoupil day because the band is back together. We checked. Its been since march 24th the last time we were all at the table. 115 days. 18 hours, 26 minutes but who is counting. Who is counting, yeah. Can you hear me over there . Normally we have six, seven people. This is good. Were practicing social distancing. It feels farther away than it look. Were glad to be here really, truly. Were going to begin this morning in kenosha, wisconsin, af atral visit from President Trump. He toured the damage and posed for what critics called photoops in what he suggested was a support for the community in Law Enforcement after recent unrest there. The president painted a
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes well feature a mixture of National Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland situated along the river, well learn how the canal system plays a role in the westward expansion during the 1830s and 40s. The canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Basically its a water transportation route that connected lake eerie with the ohio river which is part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle, the appalachian mountains. Jr George Washington had an idea to create a water transportation route using
Some good news for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a few degrees cooler than today au gres. But it will still be hot. Hot enough we are looking at the excessive heat warnings and advisories. Two colors on the map. The pink is the excessive heat. The difference is important. That only applies over here, pleasanton, san jose this is where the heat is more serious. This is 108. We talk about extremes. The excessive heat use a significant rest of heat related illnesses of you are not in the air conditioning and hydrating. This is the heat advisory in the day. This is in effect until 9 00 tonight. The National Weather service will probably extend this. This is about 1 degree of importance below a heap morning. It is still you have to read the fine print, theres still a risk of illness. This goes well into next week. I will show you that coming up in a bit. Look what else is on the weather map. A lot of lightning. That ties into a red flag warning for us. Coming up, we will put that red flag warn