美国西进运动及淘金热.pptx

historical background of Mark Twains time;The Gold Rush ;Westward Expansion;Reason： The British Proclamation of 1763 about prohibiting immigration into the west of Appalachians (阿巴拉契亚山)has be abolished by American government The needs of more land The support of the government;Process ;Process ;Manifest Destiny 天定命运论;Significance;The Trail of Tears ; With the westward expansion, a large number of Indians died on the route to their destinations, the survivors were forcibly rushed to the more desolate “Reservations, and the forced migration road of Indians, also known as Tears of the road . ;American Indians Today;American values developed from American Westward Expansion ;Gateway Arch西进之门/圣路易斯大拱门;The Gold Rush;January 24, 1848 gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma, California brought by sailing ships and covered wagons 300,000 gold-seekers (called forty-niners, as in 1849) most of the newly arrived were Americans also attracted some tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.;Gold fields and sailing routes to California, 1849;March 1848 San Francisco newspaper publisher and merchant Samuel Brannan he had hurriedly set up a store to sell gold prospecting supplies ;;;;Forty-niners;Forty-niners;Whites, Native Americans and blacks engaged in gold prospecting, c. 1850.;Legal rights;;Forty-niner panning for gold;Sluice for separation of gold from dirt with water;Excavating a river bed after the water has been diverted;Crushing quartz to washing out gold;Excavating a gravel bed with jets, circa 1863;Old-time gold nuggets from Tuolumne County, California; c. 1 in (25 mm);Legacy (1) State motto, Eureka on the?Seal of California. (2) California state route shield, with the number 49 and shaped like a miners spade. (3) Commemorative coin from 1925.