Consequences of the Gold Rush
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- Created on: 11-04-19 10:31
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- Consequences of the Gold Rush
- Manifest Destiny - White Americans seeing their destiny come true
- Racial tension - due to immigration
- Farming boom in California
- Problems of lawlessness in the mining camps
- Genocide of Californian Indians by migrants
- Gold from California boosts US economy - helps fun railroads
- Migration to California - 300,000 people by 1855. California became a state
- Tension with Plains Indians due to huge increase in migration along Oregon Trail
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