Problem
Assume the position that the Gold Rush was an overall positive occurrence for California consider the following issues:
• Life in the mines (e.g., lifestyle, minorities)
• Methods Forty-Eighters and Forty-Niners used to get to California
• Law and justice within the mines
• Methods of mining (e.g., how technology changed as surface gold became scarce)
• Overall social and cultural effects of the Gold Rush on California.