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How was the Alaska Gold Rush similar to and different from the California Gold Rush?

Question by Leah: How was the Alaska Gold Rush similar to and different from the California Gold Rush?
I need help with two questions about the Alaska Gold Rush. I just really really don’t understand it at all.

1. How was the Alaska Gold Rush similar to and different from the California Gold Rush?

2. What were conditions like for settlers in Alaska? How did they adapt to the new environment?

Thanks you guys so much!
That’s not all of my homework. That’s just the two questions out of 15 that I didn’t understand.
But thank you anyways.

Best answer:

Answer by Alaskan*Girl
Similarities – Both Alaskan Natives and California Natives were attacked, slaughtered and pushed off of their lands by travelers.

Differences – Alaska Gold Rush was more significant because there were very few people that left with less than ,000… some even became millionaires! Also, Alaska’s gold is still being mined! In fact, my grandfather and family still run a wealthy gold mine every summer.
In California most travelers left with very little more money than they arrived with.

However I’m not going to do all your homework! Do some research you’ll appreciate American History more! Have a good day!

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A few Alaska Marine Highway System products I can recommend:

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Alaska Marine Highway System

Discover an adventure unlike any other when you travel on the ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway. You’ll find outstanding scenery, abundant wildlife, fascinating history and more than 30 ports of call. For more information on Alaska’s state ferries log on to FerryAlaska.com

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Alaska: Lonely Planet Travel Video

Experience Alaska with Lonely Planet author Greg Benchwick. You’ll see more than 80 straight days of 24 hours of sunlight giving you plenty of time to admire the icy white landscapes of the Arctic ocean that’s been home to the Inupiat people for thousands of years. Special note from Greg: Oops, I called the sealskin boat an ‘upiak’, but actually it’s an ‘umiak’, 24 hours of sunlight can really mess with your head! Produced by Lonely Planet TV
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World champion big wave surfers, Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala rode into surfing history last week when they towed into a monster tsunami created by Child’s Glacier in South-Central Alaska. The creator/producer, Ryan Casey, “disovered” the wave in 1995, while on location shooting in Alaska. Then after finishing his last film, Quest, a documentary on big wave surfing, he showed Garrett the wave… that was six months ago. So after a short scout in June, we went up in August to film this… For more information contact: info@deepwaterfilms or Ryan @ ryanmayrcasey@hotmail.com
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Alaska Commercial Fisherman’s Employment Guide

Alaska Commercial Fisherman’s Employment Guide
A no Bs guide to finding a job in alaska’s commercial fishing industry. The timing is perfect for this product. Between the hype generated by the Deadliest catch and the economy more and more people are looking for jobs like commercial fishing.
Alaska Commercial Fisherman’s Employment Guide

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Q&A: Alaska cruise?

Question by fabn001: Alaska cruise?
which best date to visit Alaska by cruise?
Best low cost from Europe/Portugal?

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Answer by petcreatures78
June and July. If you port in Ketchikhan during Independence Day, they give quite a show. August, the wet weather starts and May there’s still some snow.

I hear the Holland cruises are really good. The cheapest way to go is via the Ferry though.

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alaska cruise?

Question by kerambit: alaska cruise?
After our Canadian Rockies package tour, we wish to go on a Alaska inside passage cruise. Where do you board the cruise in Vancouver and what is the best way to get there ? cab? C$? Which hotel would you recommend that we post stay after the cruise before our return flight home? nearer to airport or Vancouver town??

Best answer:

Answer by TINKERTOY ….. the one, the only, the original
The cruise port in Vancouver is right downtown. Its actually a cruise port and convention center. Your best bet is to take a taxi as carrying luggage on a public bus is prohibitive, even if you know the way. There are reasonably priced hotel in or near downtown, like about 0 US a day and a cab ride to the port will cost about to from the hotel.

Many inside passage cruises are one-way, meaning that the ship does not bring you back to Vancouver. So you need to be sure that your cruise does that if that’s what you want. Otherwise you will have to arrange to fly back home from Anchorage, or Fairbanks. OR, if you pick the cruise lines that start in Anchorage, fly there and then end your cruise in Vancouver. It is a long bus ride to the Vancouver airport from the cruise port. But your cruise ship can usually arrange a transfer for you to the airport (more expensive than doing your own) If you take a taxi you pay one far for two or three people; cruise ship transfers are generally like a person.

We were just in Vancouver and stayed at a Holiday Inn on Broadway which is easily accessible to the cruise port.

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ALASKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Question by Rhys Barnett: ALASKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
I’m organising a trip to the US this summer and have plans for every state but Alaska and i really want to visit them all, what is there to do????

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Answer by Alaska
You can take a train down to Seward and check out the Sealife center, go on the Kenai Fjords and see some puffins, sea lions, whales, up close and personal. Go check out the glaciers or Denali… really, depending on when you’ll be up here and where you’re staying will determine what we have going on really. Check out ADN.com or TravelAlaska.com I hope you enjoy your stay!

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Alaska Tour 2010 YouTube

A bus tour with Celebrity Cruise Lines from Seward Alaska to Anchorage.

Denali National Park Alaska travel video from Alaska Tour & Travel ( www.alaskatravel.com ). For more information or help planning your Alaska vacation including Denali National Park lodging, tours and transportation please visit us at www.alaskatravel.com or call us at (800)208-0200. Footage provide by Alaska Video Postcards (www.akvideo.com) .

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Q&A: Alaska??????

Question by tryandgetoutalive: Alaska??????
I have worked in Alaska and seen much of the scenery but I have never been a resident. What makes Alaska as a state different than the rest of the states? Especially for someone wanting to move there. Anything would be very helpful.

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Answer by Charlie Allison
Well one perk after living in Alaska for a couple of years is the PFD, an annual check that in the last few years has been around 00. You also get to live in the scenery, not just see it. Its hard to beat saying that you live in a postcard. If you don’t want to move the wild you could also move to one of the larger cities and work your way into a more rural area.

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