Chapter 6 lesson 2 Flashcards
How did the discovery of gold change towns like San Francisco?
Population grew
How did mining towns change?
They be came trading center
What did miners do who gave up on their quest to find gold?
They stayed in California and became merchants and shopkeepers and others claimed farm land
How did people who were not miners become rich?
Became entrpreneurs. Started businesses
Provided goods and services to miners
what are consumers?
A person who buys a good or service
What kinds of demands for work were created in california ?
People neede places to live food to eat and clothes to wear
Needed carpenters to build homes
Merchants sold supplies
As towns grew needed police bankers grocers blacksmiths
what is an entrepreneur?
A person who sets up business
how did entrepreneurs become rich?
Selling goods and services
Inflation caused them to be rich
who was Levi Strauss?
Entrepreneur who made blue jeans
what is inflation?
Shortage of goods creating a increase in price
how did inflation happen in California?
Shortage of goods and large demand
WHat type of opportunites were ther in California?
Women opened hotels restaurants and laundries
Free African Americans could become entrepreneurs
How did women make money?
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WHy did free Afircan Americans come to California?
For new opportunities.
What did some free African Americans use their money for?
To buy freedom of enslaved Africans Americans
How did miners damage the land?
Tore up land. Built dams to change flow of river which caused fish to die and farms down stream didn’t get water
Hydraulic mining
What was hydraulic mining?
Used water power to blow of mountain. To go deeper
How did hydraulic mining damage the land/environment
Sent dirt into rivers and bay stopped ships from traveling in river
Caused flooding
WHo faced discrimination in california?
Chinese and Mexican immigrants
CA Indians
African Americans
Californios
what is discrimination?
Unfair treatment of people because of religion race or birth place
What did some miners feel about immigrant miners?
Felt only people from us could mine gold
How were Indians hurt by mining?
Forced off land
Cut trees down and destroyed rivers places Indians needed for hunting and fishing
What is a vigilante?
Person who takes law into their hands
Some times punished people who were not guilty
Why were there vigilantes out west?
Violence and crime were common and there were few government officials
