MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Religious Freedom
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Silver
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Gold
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Beaver Pelts
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Detailed explanation-1: -The promise of wealth and a new life lured people from around the world to California. American gold seekers traveled west from the Eastern states, migrating in such vast numbers that their passage stimulated advancements in transcontinental travel.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the beginning of 1849, word of the Gold Rush had spread around the world, and an overwhelming number of gold-seekers and merchants began to arrive from virtually every continent.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gold became highly concentrated in California, United States as the result of global forces operating over hundreds of millions of years. Volcanoes, tectonic plates and erosion all combined to concentrate billions of dollars’ worth of gold in the mountains of California.