加州淘金热英语介绍.ppt

The California Gold Rush * 模板来自于 / * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * Effects Development Forty-niners History 01 02 03 04 Contents HISTORY began on January 24, 1848 found by James W. Marshall brought some 300,000 people to California found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter on the American River James W. Marshall The Mexican-American War The New York Herald James Polk FORTY-NINERS The first people to rush to the goldfields, beginning in the spring of 1848, were the residents of California themselves—primarily agriculturally oriented Americans and Europeans living in Northern California, along with Native Americans and some Californios (Spanish-speaking Californians). The Route of Forty-Niners * 模板来自于 / * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 *