MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Pioneers
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Mountain Men
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Placer Miners
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What type of people participated in the California gold rush, and how did they take part in it? Mostly male Americans, but there were some American women. They took part by sifting and digging for gold.
Detailed explanation-2: -Before the discovery of gold, the territory’s population was approximately 160, 000, the vast majority of whom were Native Americans. By about 1855, more than 300, 000 people had arrived. Most were Americans, though a number of settlers also came from China, Europe, and South America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The answer to the isolation problem was to bring the railroad all the way to California. Californians would have to wait almost 20 years for that. Completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 at last gave Californians the means to grow a stron-ger economy.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Sutter, in full John Augustus Sutter, original name Johann August Suter, (born February 15, 1803, Kandern, Baden [Germany]-died June 18, 1880, Washington, D.C.), German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California. Discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush.