crabtree publishing company UNCOVERING THE PAST ANALYZING PRIMARY SOURCES GOLD RUSHES NATALIE HYDE
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UNCOVERING THE PAST The different types and uses of primary and secondary sources sources related to gold rushes and how we can interpret them Sourcing evidence determining context and revealing bias How and why historians use a variety of sources to give a balanced view of events and their impact on society INTRODUCTION THE PAST COMES ALIVE 4 An overview of the California and Klondike gold rushes and the historical evidence related to them the importance of history and studying events of the past HISTORICAL SOURCES TYPES OF EVIDENCE 8 ANALYZING EVIDENCE INTERPRETATION 16 THE STORY UNCOVERED GOLD RUSHES 20 DIFFERENT VIEWS NOT ALL WAS GOLDEN 34 MODERN EXAMPLES HISTORY REPEATED 38 The impact of the gold rushes then and now the problems of gold mining today both in North America and around the world Timeline 42 Bibliography 44 Internet Guidelines 45 Glossary 46 Index 48 From the first gold rush in North Carolina the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 to the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s the impact of the gold rushes on Indigenous peoples Problems of law and order overcrowding abandoned mines and destruction of the landscape caused by the gold rushes
