USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

WESTWARD EXPANSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the name of the time period where people from all over flocked to the west in search for gold?
A
The Gold Rush
B
The Gold Movement
C
Goldilocks
D
Gold Gathering
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The 1848 discovery of gold in the territory of California prompted 300, 000 hopeful prospectors to flood into the region, altering it forever.

Detailed explanation-2: -The prison’s origins date to the California Gold Rush, a period that roughly spanned from 1848 to 1852. The influx of fortune seekers to the San Francisco area also brought an increase in crime.

Detailed explanation-3: -gold rush, rapid influx of fortune seekers to the site of newly discovered gold deposits. Major gold rushes occurred in the United States, Australia, Canada, and South Africa in the 19th century. Dawson City during the gold rush of the 1890s.

Detailed explanation-4: -California–1849 The 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California sparked the greatest gold rush of all time. Hopeful prospectors from around the world, known as forty-niners, streamed to the hills of California.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first significant gold rush in the United States was in Cabarrus County, North Carolina (east of Charlotte), in 1799 at today’s Reed’s Gold Mine. Thirty years later, in 1829, the Georgia Gold Rush in the southern Appalachians occurred.

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