California was a free state that did not allow trafficking in slaves but White southerners from Texas, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas brought black slaves into the California mines as early as the summer of 1849.
Yes, mostly Asian workers and Native American.
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The California gold rush was not a problem.
The California Gold Rush took place in the United States.
The gold rush did not effect slavery because it had all ready been agreed by congress that pass the Mason-Dixon line there wouldn't be slavery. CA came in as a free state in 1850. At that point the civil war was only 10 years away.
Social Studies Gold Rush: The California Gold Rush came before California became the thirty-first state.
An environmental problem with the California gold rush is the contamination