WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Term used to describe men who were 49 years old.
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Term used to describe men who traveled west to look for gold around 1849.
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Term used to describe all the people who lived in America around 1949.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -49er or Forty-Niner most often refers to: A miner or other person that took part in the 1849 California Gold Rush .
Detailed explanation-2: -(historical) A miner or other person who took part in the California gold rush of 1849. (American football) A player for the San Francisco 49ers, an NFL team. A student or player on a sports team at California State University, Long Beach (more commonly known as “Long Beach State").
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: -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-5: -The discovery of gold in 1848 by James Marshall sparked a massive wave of westward migration. The largest influx occurred in 1849, and those prospectors who sought their fortunes became known collectively as forty-niners, in reference to the year they arrived.