MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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operated hotels
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taught in school
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sold food in restaurants
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They worked in saloons, gambling halls, dance halls, peep shows or brothels, and some set up their own businesses. Many came to marry a prosperous miner or businessman and leave the business. Many of them did.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thousands of would-be gold miners, known as 49ers for the year they arrived, traveled overland across the mountains or by sea, sailing to Panama or even around Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Courageous women from all walks of life joined the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. Some were poor, some were professional; some wives joined their husbands and other women left their husbands at home.
Detailed explanation-4: -Of the 40, 000 people who arrived by ship in the San Francisco harbor in 1849, only 700 were women. For the few women who braved the harsh journey to Gold Country, freedom, independence, and the chance to forge a living and identity separate from male family members beckoned them towards the west.