1. Describe the westerners living in North Carolina in the 1800s. 2. How do you think the community was affected by the news of gold in their area?

3. What discovery did Matthias Barringer make? What effect did this have on North Carolina?

4. How did the mining industry affect the economy of North Carolina?

5. What were at least two of the overall positive effects of the Gold Rush in NC?

6. What was at least one of the negative effects of the Gold Rush?

7. How did the NC gold rush affect the rest of the world?

Overview of the 1800s in North Carolina ... Free land, offered by newly-opened territories in western Georgia, Alabama, northern ... Between 1815 and 1850, more than one-third (1/3) of the state's population emigrated ... And way of life.

San Francisco

In 1848, San Francisco was a town of 1,000 people, mostly Mexican American and white merchants. By 1849, the first year of the California Gold Rush, the city boomed to 25,000 people from the eastern United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

In 1825 Matthias Barringer discovered that gold could be found in veins of white quartz, and by following these veins of quartz into the ground, one could recover more gold. Prior to this discovery, all of the mining conducted in North Carolina had been aboveground, or “placer,” mining.

Explanation: