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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 geo ....
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 flo ....
Hello im kristie want to welcome to news africa its good to have your company as always environmentalist in morrish assault calling for an investigation into why dead dolphins have been found washed up on the indian ocean islands shoals 7 more caucuses were discovered on a beach and grand sable on thursday its a day off to 17 of those were found mia and oil spill. Was caused by a japanese ship that struck a coral reef last month. Fisheries minister has said that at 1st glance the dolphin dances dont appear to be related to the spill. Environmentalists say there must be an urgent inquiry to determine the cause of the ditz. My guest today is stefan goal of resistance to save vets a Political Party focusing on ecological and social issues in the rishis as defined is also an environmental activist and he joins me from the issues i welcome to day devaneys Africa Stefan so you visi ....
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