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内容提要：1849年，人们从世界各地涌到旧金山附近的内华达山脉附近淘金。他们怀揣梦想，远离家乡，走到大山深处，却忍受了各种艰难困苦。
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Gold Discovered
On January 24, 1848, James Marshall, a carpenter, was working on a ranch belonging to John Sutter. He discovered gold. This was the beginning of the California Gold Rush(加 州淘金热) of 1848.
The gold nuggets that were found at Sutter’s Mill changed the life of John Sutter. California belonged to Mexico when Sutter settled there in 1839. The governor of California gave Sutter about 50,000 acres of land where the city of Sacramento stands today.
Sutter tried to keep the news of the gold a secret. He did not want his land to be overrun by people looking for gold. Finally, the news did get out, and thousands of people from all over the country rushed to his land. They took his land and killed his cattle. Sutter’s own workers left their jobs and started searching for gold.
The population of California went from 14,000 in 1848 to almost 100,000 the following year. By 1860, the population reached 380,000. People who rushed into California looking for gold were called “forty-niners(1849年淘 金者).”
In 1848, California became part of the United States when Mexico lost its war with the United States. Because California no longer belonged to Mexico, the United States Supreme Court said that Sutter could not get his land back. Sutter spent the rest of his life trying to get the United States government to pay for the land he lost during the gold rush of 1848.
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