01.25.22 ET Gold Rush

How was the US able to acquire California?

• The Treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo

• US Constitution

What is the Gold Rush?

• a period of time in which gold was discovered in California resulting in mass settlement/migration

• a period of time in which gold was hard to find and everyone was desperate to make money

The Gadsden Purchase from Mexico allowed

• the US to extend the railroad

• Mexico to claim a portion of the US as their own

Alaska was purchased from

• Russia

• France

Time period in the mid 1800s in which the US expanded rapidly

• Westward Expansion

• American Revolution

How was the US able to acquire California?

• The Treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo

• US Constitution

What is the Gold Rush?

• a period of time in which gold was discovered in California resulting in mass settlement/migration

• a period of time in which gold was hard to find and everyone was desperate to make money

The Gadsden Purchase from Mexico allowed

• the US to extend the railroad

• Mexico to claim a portion of the US as their own

Alaska was purchased from

• Russia

• France

Time period in the mid 1800s in which the US expanded rapidly

• Westward Expansion

• American Revolution