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American carpenter and sawmill operator, who on January 24, 1848 reported the finding of gold at Coloma, California.

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People who came from outside of California to get gold, and attacked and pushed whole indigenous societies off their lands.

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The enslaved native americans, who made The Gold Rush possible.

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Chinese farmers who left home because of economic and political troubles in China.

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The construction of a 3, 075 km transcontinental railroad.

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A railroad that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

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The union (the north) and the Confederacy (the south)

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The 16th president of the United States, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west.

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The entire U.S. army numbered 16,000.

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."