MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Question
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Travel through the Panama Canal
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Sail northward to the Arctic Ocean, head west, and then go south past Alaska
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Sail through the Great Lakes, and then travel west along the Missouri River
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Sail through the Great Lakes, and then travel west along the Missouri River
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Detailed explanation-1: -Overland Route The greatest number of emigrants that ventured to California during the Gold Rush came overland by foot, wagon, stage, or horseback on the California Trail.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fervor surrounding the Gold Rush led to a revolution in transportation. New roads, bridges, ferries, wagons and steamships were created to help prospectors reach California, which was fairly isolated at the time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Coloma. Of all the gold rush towns in California, this one’s where it all began. The Marshall Gold Discovery State Park is in the tiny town of Coloma, where history takes center stage.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1848, gold was discovered in California, and the region’s 10-year-long gold rush began. The Panama Route connected steamships in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across the Isthmus of Panama by rail. These “Panama Steamers” carried almost all of the gold exported from California to eastern cities.