MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Woman had more responsibility
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There were more immigrants in America
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Thousands of people migrated to the Western territories
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All the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -By the end of the Gold Rush in 1855, more complicated methods for gathering the gold had been invented, and these methods included equipment for mining the gold from the surrounding underground rock formations.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1849, the first year of the California Gold Rush, the city boomed to 25, 000 people from the eastern United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Spurred by James Marshall’s discovery of gold in the American River during the winter of 1848, a flood of fortune-seekers came to the California frontier.