MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Los Angeles
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Sacramento
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San Francisco
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Sonoma
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Detailed explanation-1: -People flocked to California from all over the world to seek their fortune. Almost overnight, the gold rush transformed San Francisco into a booming city filled with makeshift tent-houses, hotels, stores, saloons, gambling halls, and shanties.
Detailed explanation-2: -The largest of the Gold Rush boomtowns was San Francisco, which counted only a few hundred residents in 1846 but by 1850 had reached a population of 34, 000.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Gold Rush also helped transform San Francisco into a major city. It was the main port for prospectors who arrived by boat. It grew from a small town of about 1, 000 people into a boomtown of 25, 000 by the end of 1849. This photo shows San Francisco Harbor in 1851.
Detailed explanation-4: -San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36, 000 by 1852.
Detailed explanation-5: -California–1849 The 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California sparked the greatest gold rush of all time.