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America's Greatest Discovery: The American Gold Rush

Objective: Explain the positives and negatives of the American Gold Rush and the hardships the "forty-niners" faced.

Answer to my Objective: Some positives of the American Gold Rush were people got rich, and it made San Francisco a boomtown. Some negatives were it made people completely bankrupt, and lots of people got sick and died on the trip to California. One of the hardships that the "forty-niners" faced was travel. The bitter cold winters and the extremely hot summers killed many people before they could begin mining.

Here is a link that answers my objective: http://americanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa090901a.htm

Here is a link to an image of some "forty-niners" http://www.google.com/imgres?q=the+american+gold+rush+forty-niners&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=2125&bih=1007&tbm=isch&tbnid=A-yfzicQ1lFsYM:&imgrefurl=http://www.americancowboychronicles.com/2011_10_01_archive.html&docid=OeOr_Yr8e25ijM&imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5scd2ePLrUE/Tq6F_r96_7I/AAAAAAAADxI/RuutVjwnRrA/s1600/gold_miners.gif&w=490&h=383&ei=M79nT-_bCovG0AH2p5iHCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=190&vpy=155&dur=3345&hovh=198&hovw=254&tx=140&ty=113&sig=104621321557374616424&page=1&tbnh=152&tbnw=193&start=0&ndsp=53&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

Works Cited: (Images) "American Gold Rush Forty-Niners". americancowboychronicles. Web. 19 March 2012