WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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There were 49 hundred of them
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Most of them moved there in 1849
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They traveled 49 miles to get to California
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The largest group of forty-niners in 1849 were Americans, arriving by the tens of thousands overland across the continent and along various sailing routes (the name “forty-niner” was derived from the year 1849).
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -This famous gold rush began in January of 1848 when a man named James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in California. Soon, an influx of gold-hungry people began to migrate to California, coming from all corners of the world.