Chapter 6 lesson 2 Flashcards
How did the discovery of gold change towns like San Francisco?
Population grew
How did mining towns change?
They be came trading center
What did miners do who gave up on their quest to find gold?
They stayed in California and became merchants and shopkeepers and others claimed farm land
How did people who were not miners become rich?
Became entrpreneurs. Started businesses
Provided goods and services to miners
what are consumers?
A person who buys a good or service
What kinds of demands for work were created in california ?
People neede places to live food to eat and clothes to wear
Needed carpenters to build homes
Merchants sold supplies
As towns grew needed police bankers grocers blacksmiths
what is an entrepreneur?
A person who sets up business
how did entrepreneurs become rich?
Selling goods and services
Inflation caused them to be rich
who was Levi Strauss?
Entrepreneur who made blue jeans
what is inflation?
Shortage of goods creating a increase in price
how did inflation happen in California?
Shortage of goods and large demand
WHat type of opportunites were ther in California?
Women opened hotels restaurants and laundries
Free African Americans could become entrepreneurs
How did women make money?
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WHy did free Afircan Americans come to California?
For new opportunities.
What did some free African Americans use their money for?
To buy freedom of enslaved Africans Americans
