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Gold Nugget Flashcards

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Sutter’s mill gold history

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Found January 1848 by James Marshall
Weight 0.0855g
to Capt. Joseph Folsom, summer 1848
Pres. Polk announced in SOTU, Dec. ‘48
deposited in Nat. Inst. for the Promotion of Science 1849
Smithsonian 1862

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prospector numbers

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4000 prospectors, summer 1848
300,000 Americans 1849, plus immigrants

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California statehood

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Admitted to Union 1850, free state

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San Francisco population

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1848 — 1000
1850 — 25,000
1870 — 150,000

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California/native population

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150,000 in 1848
30,000 in 1860

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