Question: What are the Impacts the gold rush has made?
Background
“On 24 January 1848, as the U.S.-Mexican War was winding down and only a few days before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed”(Gold Rush, Ed. Donald S. Frazier). John Augustus Sutter, born on February 15, 1803 and died June 18, 1880. " Sutter spent much of his early life in Switzerland; he was a Swiss citizen and served in the Swiss army. Fleeing from bankruptcy and financial failures and leaving his wife and children in Switzerland, he reached California in 1839 and persuaded the Mexican governor to grant him lands on the Sacramento River. Sutter established the Colony Sacramento (New Switzerland, later he built “Sutter’s Fort” (1841) near the frontier industries giving immigrants, traders, trappers, immigrants, and Native Americans jobs. In the process of building a water-powered sawmill, a carpenter named James W. Marshall, born on October 8, 1810 in New Jersey, found flakes of gold in a streambed on January 24, 1848. The two men tried to maintain this secret, but the news leaked out that’s when workers deserted the colony and Gold miners took over."("John Sutter." Britannica School.) After that Many people around United states, including the world, knew about California's Gold Rush and caught many people's attention causing enormous amounts of people migrating to California. After the gold rush ended and lucky ones got their gold, people decided to stay at California still having hope for gold and causing that territory to becoming the 31st state known as California. The after impacts are multiple political changes, new society, and population changes.