California Gold Rush

Effects of California Gold Rush

The sudden diversity in California gave people both acceptable and unacceptable effects in terms of racism, opportunity, and human right.

I think that the diversity of California, in terms of racism, brought unreasonable effect to people in the state, especially to Latinos and Native-Americans. Before the huge diversity began, people peacefully lived in California. In fact, in his article Ð'ЃgStateÐ'Ѓfs Latinos lost in the rush,Ð'Ѓh Ken Chavez states that relations between Latinos and Anglo-American were not always bad, and they coexisted in comparatively peace (Chavez, par.32). However, the circumstance had been changed once Gold Rush began. Because California was still a part of Mexican colonies, a lot of Latinos lived there. In other word, California was their land. At the beginning of gold rush California was surrendered from Mexico to America, and any law or rule was not established at the time of the place. Therefore, people As a whole society, Anglo-American were controlling the society, and they were the

In terms of opportunity, the diversity by gold rush had changed some peopleÐ'Ѓfs life for good. Obviously, people who found gold could be rich, and that the primary reason people came to California from different part of the world. However, those were not only people who could be rich, but people who started the business related to mining of gold could get wealth during gold rush. Because California was overpopulated by miners, businesses for them were really efficient. For instance, a woman made $18,000 by selling her home-baked pie to hungry miners, and a farmer sold his crop of melons for $30,000 to miner (Holliday, par. 10). Moreover, even though miners failed and were frustrated to digging, they could make quick decision Ð'Ѓgto grasp a real estate deal or an opportunity in a new steamboat