US CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The 1848 discovery of gold in the territory of California prompted 300, 000 hopeful prospectors to flood into the region, altering it forever.

Detailed explanation-2: -The news of gold brought approximately 300, 000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy; the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood in the Compromise of 1850.

Detailed explanation-3: -The discovery of gold in 1848 at Sutter’s Mill spurred a great wave of migration to California. Hundreds of thousands of people descended on the territory from across the continent and across the oceans. Chinese were among the immigrants who joined Americans in the quest for gold.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Gold Rush attracted immigrants from around the world. As news of the discovery was slow to reach the east coast, many of the first immigrants to arrive were from South America and Asia. By 1852, more than 25, 000 immigrants from China alone had arrived in America.

Detailed explanation-5: -It prompted one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, with hundreds of thousands of migrants across the United States and the globe coming to California to find gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.