The California Gold Rush

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In the poem gold, it is describing how the look and how it feels.in the passage gold it says, bright and yellow, hard and cold, molten, graven, hammered and rolled, heavy to get light to hold, hoarded, bartered, bought and sold, stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled, spurned by young, but hung by old to the verge of a church yard mold; price of many a crime untold.

In the article The allure of gold by readworks talks about when the gold was found in California in 1848, it triggered a movement called the Gold Rush. Thousands of settlers moved west, hoping to find gold and become rich. In total, 300,000 people came from all over the world to California during the Gold Rush. In societies from india to Egypt, gold was used to make decorative