History Kids: California Gold Rush
History Kids - Grades 4 - 9
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19m
Learn all about the California Gold Rush. Who was James Marshall, and what did he discover in 1848? How were the Indigenous people of California affected by the Gold Rush? What was the Bloody Island Massacre? Who were the Forty-Niners? What is the legacy of the California Gold Rush? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video that reinforce important concepts.
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