MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Exciting and full of riches
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Challenging but worth it
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Hard and full of disease
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Forty-niners rushed to California with visions of gilded promise, but they discovered a harsh reality. 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Full of hope, a miner shouldered his pick and shovel in the morning and headed out to dig. Each miner had his own section of land in which to dig for gold, called his claim. Gold diggers spent 12 to 16 hours a day digging, scraping, hauling, and washing dirt and gravel. The work was repetitive and backbreaking.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Forty-niners” flocked to California during the Gold Rush. Pioneers came to California by land and by sea from other parts of America and the world. The result was new wealth and a dramatically increased and diverse population.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mining was hard, hazardous, dirty work, with no certain return at the end of it. This miner worked in shifts, day and night, in deep shafts up to 40-feet deep. He was often waist-deep in water: ‘Got to work and went down and sunk until about one o’clock.