MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Los Angeles
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Sacramento
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Detailed explanation-1: -The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300, 000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
Detailed explanation-2: -Almost overnight, the gold rush transformed San Francisco into a booming city filled with makeshift tent-houses, hotels, stores, saloons, gambling halls, and shanties. By 1849, as the gold rush fever swept through the country, the city’s population exploded to a staggering 25, 000.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1846 San Francisco was a colony of around 200 people called Yerba Buena.
Detailed explanation-4: -The California Gold Rush turned the once-rural expanse of California into an area dotted with towns and cities. “The Gold Rush put San Francisco on the map, ” Rohrbough says. “It also was instrumental in the founding and growth of Stockton and Sacramento.”