USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout 1849, people around the United States (mostly men) with gold fever borrowed money, mortgaged their property or spent their life savings to make the arduous journey to California. In pursuit of the kind of wealth they had never dreamed of, they left their families and hometowns.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-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.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the Gold Rush of 1849, tens of thousands of people flocked to California to seek their fortunes mining gold. It was the largest migration in United States history.

Detailed explanation-5: -At the time, the California Gold Rush of 1849 was in full swing, and men of all ages were flocking west to get rich. Gold was not the only thing that people were after. There were many different opportunities to get rich, such as: logging, mining, and farming that could not be done in the east.