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California Gold Rush
In 1848, gold was discovered in California.The New York Herald announced that all of the New York City had been overtaken by a new and devastating disorder-gold mania. Most commonly they called it gold fever. Once one man in a community caught the gold fever,it tended to spread quickly,until just about about ever family knew someone who came down with it. The great majority of americans who chose to head west did it for the money. Most men take it carefully go to the california. -
Comstock Lode
It lies in the Carson Valley in northwestern nevada,on the side of mount Davidson,where the towns of Virginia City and
Gold Hill would mark its presence. Its runs two and half miles across the eastern face of the mountain.The Comstock mines produced more than $300 million in gold and silver-the richest in the West at that time. Along with the profits,the Comstock led to a series of innovations in mining technology that influenced mining across the length and breadth of the West. -
The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was adopted by the congress in 1862,provided for the settlement of the nation's vast public western lands by farmers. Provided 160 acres for any head of household and its right to acquire title to that land for a minimal fee once the individual had occupied the land for five years.