By the year 1854 over 300,000 men and women had migrated to California.(Rice et al., 2012, p. 171).
The state grew, without a doubt, all together extremely rapidly. The president at the time was James Polk who in December of 1848 addressed congress stating that great wealth could be found by the means of gold in California. This message spread across the United States and eventually across the entire world. Forty-Niners, or gold hunters traveled to California in January of 1848 immediately following the discovery of gold. Not all Forty-Niners where American in fact over twenty-five percent of California's population came from foreign lands and ninety-two percent of the population was men. They had all come in hopes of chasing their dreams of gaining wealth thorough California's gold. However, the first documents of Marshall's discovery were not printed until March 15, 1848 in a San Francisco paper called the "Californian". By the end of 1848 miners were traveling from all over the world including many men from Chili and men who worked at the gold rush in Georgia in 1830. Georgia miners had many skills and instruments to enhance mining efficiency. (Clay & Jones, 2008, p. 1002). .
A Mormon by the name of Sam Brannan, heard that gold might have been found at Sutter's Mill and traveled to San Francisco to find Sutter's mill occupied with many frantic miners panning for gold. Brannan set up a camp at Mormons Island and demanded to collect what he called the " the lords tithe" or ten percent of all gold mined on the American River. Finally the miners asked the military Governor of California if Brennan had the right to collect a tithe. The Governor replied by calling the miners fools for giving Brannan their gold and as a result Brannan's tithe collecting days came to an end. Brannan took his gold and ran through the streets of San Francisco yelling "gold, gold, gold in the American River".(Rice et al.
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This time period plays an important role in the history of time because of the main significant events. ... For the first time in history the scales tipped against wealthy landlords as peasants and serfs gained more bargaining power. ... The author was Don Nardo and the name of his book was Turning Points in World History which was publish in 1999 in Sacramento California. ...
