MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Mostly forty-niners were Americans, but some were immigrants from Mexico, Europe, and China.
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Vigilante justice in most boomtowns were quickly replaced by territorial police forces.
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In the early years of the Gold Rush, most forty-niners struck gold and made huge fortunes.
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Most boomtowns rose quickly and became a permanent town still there today.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Gold Rush attracted immigrants from around the world. By 1852, more than 25, 000 immigrants from China alone had arrived in America. As the amount of available gold began to dwindle, miners increasingly fought one another for profits and anti-immigrant tensions soared. The government got into the action too.
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: -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-4: -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.