MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Question
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Many miners were wild and violent.
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Many miners were good and kind.
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Many miners were bakers.
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Many miners were friendly and helpful.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some miners were injured in explosions or electrocuted. Others fell off ladders, slipped on rocks, inhaled silica dust, or suffered from mercury, lead or arsenic poisoning. Many got sick from drinking dirty water and living too close together.
Detailed explanation-2: -Life in the gold fields exposed the miner to loneliness and homesickness, isolation and physical danger, bad food and illness, and even death. More than anything, mining was hard work. Fortune might be right around the corner, but so too was failure.
Detailed explanation-3: -By August 1848, 4, 000 gold miners were in the area, and within a year about 80, 000 “forty-niners” (as the fortune seekers of 1849 were called) had arrived at the California goldfields. By 1853 their numbers had grown to 250, 000.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many of the first gold seekers spent their first summer living in tents. These were temporary shelters. The miners built log or frame cabins to live in during the winter.