USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prospectors retrieved the gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, such as panning. Although mining caused environmental harm, more sophisticated methods of gold recovery were developed and later adopted around the world. New methods of transportation developed as steamships came into regular service.

Detailed explanation-2: -"Forty-niners” flocked to California during the Gold Rush. Pioneers came to California by land and by sea from other parts of America and the world. The result was new wealth and a dramatically increased and diverse population.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The earliest gold seekers came from Oregon, Mexico, and South America, especially Chile and Peru. Then news spread across the Pacific, drawing hopeful miners from the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), China, and Australia. Later they were joined by Europeans, particularly from Germany, Ireland, and France.