MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Given its long coastline, California became home to the largest port cities in North America.
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Slavery was popular in the California territory, so most settlers that came to the region brought labor forces of thousands of slaves.
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The California Gold Rush led over 100, 000 people to emigrate to California in hopes of getting rich from mining gold.
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The large population of Native Americans living in California were naturalized as United States citizens.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered in California at Sutter’s Mill. By 1849, people were coming to California from all over the world to look for gold. The California gold rush caused a huge increase in California’s population.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1848 discovery of gold in California set off a frenzied Gold Rush to the state the next year as hopeful prospectors, called “forty-niners, ” poured into the state. This massive migration to California transformed the state’s landscape and population.
Detailed explanation-3: -The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300, 000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
Detailed explanation-4: -Americans soon began “rushing” to California by land and sea before the “easy” gold disappeared. Between 1850 and 1860, California’s population grew from 92, 597 to 379, 994-a 310 percent increase!
Detailed explanation-5: -Several days earlier, January 24, 1848, gold had been discovered on the American River near Sacramento, and the ensuing gold rush hastened California’s admittance to the Union. With the Gold Rush came a huge increase in population and a pressing need for civil government.