WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Oregon
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California
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New Mexico
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Colorado
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gold seekers first boarded a ship on the East Coast of the United States, in New York City or Boston, Massachusetts. The ship traveled south around Cape Horn and then north to California, where passengers would get off at San Francisco. The voyage took about six months.
Detailed explanation-2: -On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold on the property of Johann A. Sutter near Coloma, California.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gold Discovered in California. Many people in California figured gold was there, but it was James W. Marshall on January 24, 1848, who saw something shiny in Sutter Creek near Coloma, California. He had discovered gold unexpectedly while overseeing construction of a sawmill on the American River.
Detailed explanation-4: -The greatest number of emigrants that ventured to California during the Gold Rush came overland by foot, wagon, stage, or horseback on the California Trail.