MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Detailed explanation-1: -They worked in saloons, gambling halls, dance halls, peep shows or brothels, and some set up their own businesses. Many came to marry a prosperous miner or businessman and leave the business. Many of them did. Others became mistresses to high rolling customers who could afford to keep them in the style they desired.
Detailed explanation-2: -Courageous women from all walks of life joined the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. Some were poor, some were professional; some wives joined their husbands and other women left their husbands at home.
Detailed explanation-3: -Of the 40, 000 people who arrived by ship in the San Francisco harbor in 1849, only 700 were women. For the few women who braved the harsh journey to Gold Country, freedom, independence, and the chance to forge a living and identity separate from male family members beckoned them towards the west.
Detailed explanation-4: -The vast majority of miners during the California Gold Rush were men. The census of 1850 showed that only 8 percent of the population in California was female.