An astounding amount of gold was pulled from the ground during the California gold rush. In 1852 the take for the year was $80 million ($1.9 billion in 2005 dollars). This map shows some of the ...

History Detective Wes Cowan visits California gold ... differently about the Gold Rush after this exercise? Have students research, then create a timeline or a map depicting various gold rushes ...

The inquiry into primary sources, maps and historic photographs asks students to examine the materials and answer whether ...

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some ...