MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Detailed explanation-1: -They came from all around the world. Some were Americans, but many came from places like China, Mexico, Europe, and Australia. Many of the first prospectors did make a lot of money. They often made ten times in a day what they could working a normal job.
Detailed explanation-2: -Discovery Gold Rush-Filmed in Dawson City Yukon. Did you know that Discovery Channel’s #1 rated and most watched series “Gold Rush” is filmed right here in the Klondike Region?
Detailed explanation-3: -Whole indigenous societies were attacked and pushed off their lands by the gold-seekers, called “forty-niners” (referring to 1849, the peak year for Gold Rush immigration). Outside of California, the first to arrive were from Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and Latin America in late 1848.