MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Los Angeles
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St. Louis
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San Francisco
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Sacramento
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Sonoma
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Detailed explanation-1: -Whenever gold was discovered in a new place, miners would move in and make a mining camp. Sometimes these camps would rapidly grow into towns called boomtowns. The cities of San Francisco and Columbia are two examples of boomtowns during the gold rush .
Detailed explanation-2: -San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36, 000 by 1852.
Detailed explanation-3: -So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).
Detailed explanation-4: -Gold! On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold on the property of Johann A. Sutter near Coloma, California.
Detailed explanation-5: -The lure of the Gold Rush made San Francisco a boomtown after the 1850s.