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Gold Rush Inequality: Power and Prejudice

K - 5th
Learn how the California Gold Rush transformed the region while revealing deep racial injustices. Explore the violent displacement of Native Americans, the impact of the Foreign Miners' Tax on Chinese and Hispanic miners, and how white...
Instructional Video
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Frontier, Railroads, and Mining

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Emergence of the Frontier, the Expansion of Railroads, and Mining is a round table discussion of groups who have reviewed documents, letters, etc. from movement west to either mine or acquire land,...