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The California Gold Rush, Railroads and Manifest Destiny
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Mexican Miners
By early 1849, there were an estimated 6,000 Mexicans digging for gold.
Railroads
Throughout the 1850s California State asked Congress for a transcontinental railroad to provide passenger service and to ship goods to and from the Midwest and the East Coast. The growing split between northern and southern states in the 1850s prevented Congress from choosing which route the railroad would take.
California desperately needed railroads so the state government started construction on California's first railroad, the Sacramento Valley Railroad, in 1854
The problem...
The Gold Rush sparked a railroad boom that would last for more than 50 years..
Foreign Miners
The Gold Rush attracted 300,000 from the east United States, Latin America, Europe, Australia, and China.
North America, 1848
By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up 1/5th of the mining population in California mining towns.
1859
1885
Gold changes the course of history once again!
James W. Marshall was just building a lumber mill in California when he came across some small pieces of gold.
When:_______________________
"American Progress" by John Gast, 1872
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