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Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in geo ....
But also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. Until then this had been an area really beyond the line of settlement. But suddenly now the White Settlement catches up very quickly. Here is the governor, george gilmore, describing what it was like meeting the georgia miners in 1829. Many thousands of idle people flo ....
Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Host representative omar, democrat from minnesota has a new book out. Here is what it looks like and this is called what america looks like. Congresswoman, thank you for joining us on book tv. There are two characters in your book and who are they . My grandfather and father. Abba is the word we use for dad in somali and abba is the Traditional Middle Eastern name for father since i was born as his child that is what his children call him and we continue to call him that as well. They were both father figures to me and so i continued to call them abba and abba. Host what were the first eight or years like for you . Guest peaceful. I had a really enjoyable childhood and i grew up in a household where we had, not just you know my siblings and my father, extended family lived with us, my uncles and aunties and grandfather and my greatgrandmother was always around and so it was a ve ....
Alaska, a bears and ballot, little bit later arizona senator discusses her book, dare to fly. Representative ilhan omar, democrat of minnesota has a new book out, heres what it looks like and its called this is what america looks like, congresswoman thank you for joining us on book tv, there are two characters in your book, baba and abe, who are they . My grandfather and father, abe is the word that we use for data into molly, and baba is a traditional word that is used in the middle east for father, since i was born in his house, that is what his children called him and we continue to call him that as well, they were both father figures to me, i continue to call them that. What were the first eight or so years of your life like . Peaceful, i had a really enjoyable childhood, i grew up in a household where we had not just my siblings and my father but my extended family with my uncles and aunties and grandfather, my greatgrandmother was always around, and so it was a very loving enviro ....
Them abe and baba. Were the first eight or so years of your life like . Peaceful. I had a really enjoyable childhood. I grew up in a household where we had not just my siblings and my father but my extended family lived with us, my uncles and aunties and grandfather. My greatgrandmother was always around it was a very loving environment. I was raised by educators so education was a huge part of our life and we all loved learning and we were very curious kids. My grandfather and father encouraged discussions and debate and curiosity. I was known as the why kid when i was little. I had a lot of intimate time with my grandfather and father because i was always around them asking questions. As a mother now i know how annoying that could be at times but they never let on. It was a very protective enriching environment to grow up in. And that was in the ab somali area cannot. The capital city. A very different place at that time than it is now. It was very culturally enriched environment. My ....