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In January 1848, James Wilson Marshall discovered gold while constructing a saw mill along the American River (eyewitness history.com)

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Within a few years, there was an important but lesser-known surge of prospectors into far Northern California

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The gold-seekers, called forty-niners

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Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to California to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush(Wikipedia)

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More fortunes were made by merchants than by miners.

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The Gold Rush was a male-dominated event.

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The Gold Rush attracted immigrants from around the world.

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In March 1848, there were roughly 157,000 people in the California territory; 150,000 Native Americans, 6,500 of Spanish or Mexican descent known as Californios and fewer than 800 non-native Americans

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During the siege of Alamo, "The Texan leaders were meeting at Washington -on -the -Brazos.

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was an armed confict berween the US and the centralist republic of mexico from 1846 to 1848

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is a term for the attitude prevalent

during the 19th century period of American

expansion

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the Oregon Trail is a 2,200 -mile historic east-west larged wheeled wagon route.

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it began on January 24, 1848

when gold was found by James

W. Marshall at Sutters mill

in coloma, California.