MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Question
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It was a transportation hub in the West.
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It was really close to the Pacific Ocean.
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It was very far from the east coast colonies.
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It was home to all California Indians.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sacramento, which emerged as the major trading and distribution center between San Francisco and the gold fields was where some of California’s earliest and most significant capitalists set up shop to serve the miners’ needs.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the time, the California Gold Rush of 1849 was in full swing, and men of all ages were flocking west to get rich. Gold was not the only thing that people were after. There were many different opportunities to get rich, such as: logging, mining, and farming that could not be done in the east.
Detailed explanation-3: -The fervor surrounding the Gold Rush led to a revolution in transportation. New roads, bridges, ferries, wagons and steamships were created to help prospectors reach California, which was fairly isolated at the time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Other than traveling overland by horseback or wagon train, the only other way to go from the East coast to the West was by ship, which meant sailing all the way around the South American continent then north along the coast of two continents.