MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Restaurant business with kitchen, tables, and a cook to feed hungry miners.
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Store with cash register, shelves, and counter to sell food and supplies to miners.
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Hotel with staff, beds, and rooms to house tired miners.
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Blacksmith with fireplace, forge, and metal to make mining tools for miners to mine gold with.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The early years By watching other miners and veterans from the Californian rushes they learnt the techniques of panning, ground sluicing, cradling, puddling and digging shafts. All these methods involved human labour and water to free gold from clay and soil.
Detailed explanation-2: -People lived in tents at first, but later on huts made from canvas, wood and bark were built. Gradually there were stores and traders and other amenities, but life remained hard. Food and other goods had to be brought in by cart and so were very expensive. The settlements were all rather makeshift and temporary.
Detailed explanation-3: -Only a handful of them were actually able to do so, and Samuel Brannan was one of them. He became the first millionaire of the Gold Rush-not by mining the gold, but by capitalising on the needs of miners, and selling them picks, shovels, and pans.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California’s development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood.