MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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advanced farmers
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over 100 different languages in 500 regions
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largely peaceful, easily subjugated
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allowed to participate in Mexican and American society
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largely wiped out by the gold rush
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Detailed explanation-1: -By 1870, the Native population of California had declined to an estimated 31, 000 with over 60 percent perishing from diseases introduced by the 49ers. Tribes were also systematically chased off their lands, forcibly relocated to missions and reservations, enslaved and brutally massacred.
Detailed explanation-2: -The news of gold brought approximately 300, 000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy; the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood in the Compromise of 1850.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 20 years that followed the discovery of gold, 80 percent of the state’s Native American population was wiped out-victims of displacement, disease and agenocide wrought in the sake of power and gold. John Sutter had set the stage for their destruction-but his cruelty was just the beginning.