Impact of the gold rush Henry Liu

9/13: The book that I will be using is called "Golden rule: the origin of California water laws in the gold rush by  Mark Kanazawa. In this book, it illustrates mostly the negative impacts of the gold rush, but it also acts as a very good guide in order for us to see the impact of this event. It describes how the water laws that exist today have come about and why they are there, and this is all part of the impact of the gold rush.

I am doing my research on the positive and negative impacts of the Gold Rush because I live in California so it interests me to see how this state has developed into what it has become today. I would also like to find an explanation for the rise of California and I believe it is in the gold rush.