USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1830s, cattle ranching became California’s most important industry. Cattle provided hides and tallow (beef fat) that could be traded for imported goods brought by ship.

Detailed explanation-2: -The cattle industry in the United States in the nineteenth century due to the young nation’s abundant land, wide-open spaces, and rapid development of railroad lines to transport the beef from western ranches to population centers in the Midwest and the East Coast.

Detailed explanation-3: -The completion of the first transcontinental railroad and subsequent railroad lines changed the game dramatically. Cattle ranchers and eastern businessmen realized that it was profitable to round up the wild steers and transport them by rail to be sold in the East for as much as thirty to fifty dollars per head.

Detailed explanation-4: -Legacies they left • The Californios gave us Spanish names for California cities. They brought new crops, such as grapes, olives, and citrus. They opened California to the world. Reasons they moved to the West • The missionaries intended to convert Native Americans to Christianity.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was one effect of the California gold rush? California achieved statehood.