USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The 1848 discovery of gold in California set off a frenzied Gold Rush to the state the next year as hopeful prospectors, called “forty-niners, ” poured into the state. This massive migration to California transformed the state’s landscape and population.

Detailed explanation-2: -The forty-niners definition encompasses anyone who left their lives, property, and homes to travel to California in 1848-1849 in search of gold. Gold prospectors, most of them men, had the plan to go to California, find gold, become rich from selling the gold, then return home.

Detailed explanation-3: -The California gold rush caused a huge increase in California’s population. That year about 80, 000 gold-seekers came to California, hoping to strike it rich. These migrants were known as “forty-niners.” Nearly eighty percent of these were Americans from the east. The others came from all over the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in an address to Congress. As a result, individuals seeking to benefit from the gold rush-later called the “forty-niners"-began moving to the Gold Country of California or “Mother Lode” from other countries and from other parts of the United States.