USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Forty-niners came from Latin America, particularly from the Mexican mining districts near Sonora and Chile. Gold-seekers and merchants from Asia, primarily from China, began arriving in 1849, at first in modest numbers to Gum San ("Gold Mountain"), the name given to California in Chinese.

Detailed explanation-2: -The earliest gold seekers came from Oregon, Mexico, and South America, especially Chile and Peru. Then news spread across the Pacific, drawing hopeful miners from the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), China, and Australia. Later they were joined by Europeans, particularly from Germany, Ireland, and France.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gold! On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold on the property of Johann A. Sutter near Coloma, California.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the mid 1850s there were more than 300, 000 new arrivals-and one in every 90 people in the United States was living in California. All of these people (and all of this money) helped fast track California to statehood.