However, these sentiments and practices allowed for the introduction of immigrant labor. While the conditions would get far worse before improving over the next century, the ultimate result was an industrialized country with strong economic base and revolutionary cultural diversity. Economic corruption certainly was a major problem during the times of gold rush, and through its evils, inspired the enterprising Californian spirit and the laws of regulation in labor we have today...
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The drive for wealth in the gold hills of California drove many people to commit less than honorable business practices. Many more dreams were lost and broken in this time than were fulfilled with the promise of fortune. Many came with little to spare, and risked all they had for a shot at fortune. Some died and lost all they came with, working to their dying day for the same dream of wealth...
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Gold Rush The first problem that the forty-niners faced was that California was a long ways away and there was no easy way to get there. They had two choices, either to take a ship around the tip of South America, or a 2,000 mile hike across the rugged American terrain...	1 / 229
GOLD RUSH Recent discoveries render it probable that these mines are more extensive and valuable than was anticipated. The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by authentic reports...	10 / 2677
California Gold Rush Migration would have been a lot slower. Most of the original farmers came to California initially seeking wealth through gold digging. Transportation also became significant in the Gold Rush era...	3 / 815
gold rush Many made their way on foot or by wagon. San Francisco was the most popular port of call for those who came across the oceans. For some, the journey to California took up to treacherous nine months...	4 / 1004