MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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People worked long hours and got very sick.
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People had to face deadly snakes and bugs.
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People could not find Sutter’s Mill.
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People found out that there was no gold.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered in California at Sutter’s Mill. By 1849, people were coming to California from all over the world to look for gold. The California gold rush caused a huge increase in California’s population. That year about 80, 000 gold-seekers came to California, hoping to strike it rich.
Detailed explanation-2: -The answer to the isolation problem was to bring the railroad all the way to California. Californians would have to wait almost 20 years for that. Completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 at last gave Californians the means to grow a stron-ger economy.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California’s development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and accelerated the Native American population’s decline from disease, starvation and the California genocide.