California Gold Rush of 1849

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/California_Gold_Rush_of_1849

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:affectedArea	gptkb:Sacramento gptkb:San_Francisco gptkb:Sierra_Nevada
gptkbp:causedBy	discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill
gptkbp:currency	gold dust
gptkbp:discoveredBy	gptkb:James_W._Marshall
gptkbp:economicImportance	development of banking in California growth of San Francisco increased global gold supply
gptkbp:endDate	1855
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	California Gold Rush of 1849
gptkbp:influenced	westward expansion California's population growth development of transcontinental railroad
gptkbp:legacy	California's diverse population California's economic power environmental changes in California
gptkbp:location	gptkb:California gptkb:Sutter's_Mill
gptkbp:mediaType	gptkb:literature films paintings
gptkbp:nickname	gptkb:Gold_Rush gptkb:Forty-Niners'_Gold_Rush
gptkbp:notableEvent	California admitted as 31st state arrival of forty-niners decline of Native American population environmental impact on rivers and land rise of boomtowns
gptkbp:notableFor	1849
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Leland_Stanford gptkb:Levi_Strauss gptkb:James_W._Marshall gptkb:John_Sutter gptkb:Sam_Brannan
gptkbp:participants	gptkb:Native_Americans gptkb:Chinese_immigrants Mexican miners forty-niners
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Klondike_Gold_Rush gptkb:Australian_gold_rushes gptkb:Comstock_Lode
gptkbp:resultedIn	economic crisis California statehood mass migration to California
gptkbp:startDate	1848
gptkbp:transportation	overland trails wagon trains clipper ships steamships
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Forty-Niners gptkb:The_Forty-Niners
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6