MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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The first gold was found in California
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Many people started moving out west
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California became a state
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850. The legislature was unsatisfied with the location, so former General and State Senator Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo donated land in the future city of Vallejo for a new capital; the legislature convened there for one week in 1852 and again for a month in 1853.
Detailed explanation-2: -Once the Compromise of 1850 was passed by Congress the government of California wasted no time in becoming a state. The dreams of many came true when California entered the Union. The U.S. was now a continental power, with states spreading from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Manifest Destiny was close to being fulfilled.
Detailed explanation-3: -California became a State as a result of the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848. A massive 525, 000 square miles of territory above Mexico was ceded to the victorious United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago on February 2, 1848 (the US also paid Mexico $15 million).