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It helped with expansion because people had more money after finding gold so they could buy more land. It also helped because people were traveling from all around the world to strike rich.

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At first the gold was easy to find in the rivers, but then gold got harder to find so they used a different process by using dynamite,shovels and pickaxes to big down to find the gold.

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To get rich.

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The gold rush started in San Francisco, Sacramento Valley

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The Gold Rush started in 1848. It peaked in 1852-$81 million in gold

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The Gold Rush miners extracted more than 750,000 pounds of gold.

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The 49'ers were people who were involved in the gold rush. James Wilson Marshall was the man who started the gold rush by finding gold flakes in the river.