Gold in United States

Gold in North Carolina

• The first gold rush in the United States occurred a few years after its discovery

• In 1799, of a hunk of "heavy yellow' metal in or along Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, by Conrad John Reed, aged 12.

First gold rush 1803

• A gold rush started as a slave found a 28 pound gold stone next to a lake

• Many of discoveries continued to happen until gold was discovered in California in 1849

Gold Found in California

• James Marshall was building a saw mill and saw something shine in the water.

• People everywhere dropped everything and ran to California to dig for gold.

Forty-niners

• Americans who joined the rush for gold in 1849

Miners Life

• Almost all Men. People recall seeing towns with only 2 women in it.

• Men would pay 5 dollars for a biscuit made by a women.

• Small villages turned into towns of thousands of people overnight

• Gold rush Video

News paper article

• You and your partner are two right a 1 page newspaper article telling the story behind either the California or North Carolina gold rush. Your story must include:

1. How it started

2. What people saw

3. A real life story