MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Forty-niners headed west to seek fortunes by mining for gold.
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The Mormons headed west to escape religious persecution.
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Southern planters headed west in search of fertile farmland on which to establish cotton and tobacco plantations.
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Missionaries headed west to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Forty-niners refers to the people that migrated to California from 1848-1849 in hopes to find gold and make fortunes. Why are the 49ers called the 49ers? The 49ers got their name simply for the date in history (1849) where tens of thousands of people migrated to California from all over the world to pan for gold.
Detailed explanation-2: -Arriving in covered wagons, clipper ships, and on horseback, some 300, 000 migrants, known as “forty-niners” (named for the year they began to arrive in California, 1849), staked claims to spots of land around the river, where they used pans to extract gold from silt deposits.
Detailed explanation-3: -The influx of gold resulted in the expansion of manufacturing and the service industries, as many entrepreneurial newcomers took advantage of the demand for mining materials, lumber, clothing and transportation.
Detailed explanation-4: -On the eve of the Gold Rush, the missions had been secularized and decaying for more than a decade. Most economic activity was organized around the ranchos, large cattle ranches that produced hides and tallow, the two leading commodities that connected California with the outside world.