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In 1850 California’s legislature passed a Foreign Miner’s tax, which levied a monthly fee of $20 on non-citizens, the equivalent of more than $500 in today’s money. As the amount of available gold began to dwindle, miners increasingly fought one another for profits and anti-immigrant tensions soared. By 1852, more than 25,000 immigrants from China alone had arrived in America. As news of the discovery was slow to reach the east coast, many of the first immigrants to arrive were from South America and Asia. In fact, by 1850 more than 25 percent of California’s population had been born outside the United States. The Gold Rush attracted immigrants from around the world.

government had purchased the land, California became the 31st state in the Union.ģ. All of these people (and all of this money) helped fast track California to statehood. By the mid 1850s there were more than 300,000 new arrivals-and one in every 90 people in the United States was living in California. Just 20 months later, following the massive influx of settlers, the non-native population had soared to more than 100,000. In March 1848, there were roughly 157,000 people in the California territory 150,000 Native Americans, 6,500 of Spanish or Mexican descent known as Californios and fewer than 800 non-native Americans. The Gold Rush was the largest mass migration in U.S. Mint were produced using North Carolina gold. Eventually, more than 30,000 people in the Tar Heel state were mining for gold, and for more than 30 years all gold coins issued by the U.S.

Fifty years before gold was discovered at Sutter’s mill, the first gold rush in American history got underway after a 17-pound gold nugget was found in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. That honor actually belongs to North Carolina. California did not have the first gold rush in American history.