WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Goods were readily available.
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The number of people created high demand.
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The profits from gold were lower than expected.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Supplies were scarce in California, and the demand for them was so great that merchants raised prices as high as they wanted.
Detailed explanation-2: -On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered in California at Sutter’s Mill. By 1849, people were coming to California from all over the world to look for gold. The California gold rush caused a huge increase in California’s population. That year about 80, 000 gold-seekers came to California, hoping to strike it rich.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California’s development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood.
Detailed explanation-4: -The “forty-niners” recorded the challenges, hardships, struggles, and dangers they encountered in diaries and letters: terrible storms, inadequate food and water, rampant diseases, overcrowding, and shipwrecks.