California Gold Rush Research Paper

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Have you ever heard of the California Gold Rush? People rushing to find gold in California, hoping to strike gold and become rich? It wasn’t that sweet. It ended with around 150,000 people dead. The California Gold Rush should be memorialized because over two-thirds of the Native American population in California was killed, enslaved, or forced to move away during the Gold Rush by the white supremacists who had moved there hoping to become rich. The California Gold Rush should be memorialized as a painting because when people have memorialized it in the past, they have only focused on the white men who died while murdering the natives and being selfish. There were posters made giving rewards for killing and encapturing natives, so the painting