MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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discovery of gold
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gadsden purchase
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mormons escaping religious persecution
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industrialization
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Detailed explanation-1: -On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California.
Detailed explanation-2: -The news of gold brought approximately 300, 000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy; the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood in the Compromise of 1850.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1848, Marshall found shining flecks of gold in the tailrace of the sawmill he was building in partnership with John Sutter. The discovery in present-day Coloma sparked California’s famous gold rush and led to the greatest voluntary mass migration of people in the Western Hemisphere.
Detailed explanation-4: -On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold on the property of Johann A. Sutter near Coloma, California.