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Manifest Destiny greatly impacted the country, it was the push behind America's expeditious expansion into the West. Some examples of it's impact on the country are that it helped fuel western settlement, and pushed many Native American out of America.

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Forty-niners came from Latin America, particularly from the Mexican mining districts near Sonora and Chile. Gold-seekers and merchants from Asia, primarily from China, began arriving in 1849

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How were they treated once they reached the West?

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How were they treated once they reached the West?

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Though migration to California was fueled by gold-tinted visions of easy wealth and luxury, life as a forty-niner could be brutal. While a small number of prospectors did become rich, the reality was that gold panning rarely turned up anything of real value, and the work itself was back-breaking.
The lack of housing, sanitation, and law enforcement in the mining camps and surrounding areas created a dangerous mix. Crime rates in the goldfields were extremely high. Vigilante justice was frequently the only response to criminal activity left unchecked by the absence of effective law enforcement. As prospectors dreaming of gold poured into the region, formerly unsettled lands became populated.
( link -https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/american-west/a/the-gold-rush)

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What were immediate and long-term effects?

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What were immediate and long-term effects?

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the peaceful people indigenous to the area were decimated and perished in great numbers from starvation, disease, abuse, and massacre. Their society, habitat, infrastructure and culture were destroyed. Lands and environments were destroyed because of floods of mud.

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How did the discovery of gold shape the economy and population in California?

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How did the discovery of gold shape the economy and population in California?

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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.

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Why were Native Americans forced off their lands?

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Why were Native Americans forced off their lands?

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Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians' land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River.

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Define “Assimilation.” How did the US government encourage assimilation into American culture?

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Define “Assimilation.” How did the US government encourage assimilation into American culture?

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The cultural assimilation of Native Americans was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. ... It established Native American boarding schools which children were required to attend.

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What events were key turning points in the relationship between the Plains Indians and the US government?

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What events were key turning points in the relationship between the Plains Indians and the US government?

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In the late 19th century, white settlers in the West clashed with Native Americans over land and natural resources. When several tribes resisted settlement on reservations, the U.S. government fought for control in a series of conflicts called the Indian Wars.

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What attracted settlers to the Great Plains?

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What attracted settlers to the Great Plains?

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One reason was the government was offering 160 acres of land for free if the settler agreed to live on the land for five years. This was part of the Homestead Act of 1862. ... Some people went to the Great Plains when they heard there were minerals in the region.

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How did the physical geography impact settlers there?

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How did the physical geography impact settlers there?

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Pioneers passed through the Great Plains and continued to move west because they thought the area was unsuitable for farming.

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What new methods and technologies were invented to improve agricultural practices?

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What new methods and technologies were invented to improve agricultural practices?

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There were several new farming technologies and techniques such as the mechanized reaper, barbed wire, dry farming, steel plow, harrow, steel windmill, hybridization, and grain drill. The mechanized reaper made it easier to have larger farms without the need of extra hands.

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What hardships did they face? What convinced some to stay while others left?

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What hardships did they face? What convinced some to stay while others left?

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Settlers faced challenges such as droughts and heavy winters. The plains were also extremely isolated; this makes living harder for widowed women because they have no men or neighbors present around them for protection. Diseases were a big concern because there was no medical treatment on those lands. Farmers Grow Angry and Desperate. During World War I, farmers worked hard to produce record crops and livestock. When prices fell they tried to produce even more to pay their debts, taxes and living expenses. In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.