Manifest Destiny and California Gold Rush

A belief shared by many Americans in the mid 1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.

• Agreement

• Manifest Destiny

• California Gold Rush

Identify the following Impacts of Gold Rush:

• •The arrival of 49ers created a population boom

  •Immigration increased diversity of population

  •California became a state in 1 year

  •Gold mining was important, but farming and ranching grew

  •Discrimination of Californios and Native Americans

• •The arrival of 49ers created a population boom

  •Immigration increased of population

  •Growth of new businesses and industry transformed California’s economy

  •Gold mining was important, but farming and ranching grew

  •Discrimination of Californios and Native Americans

• •The arrival of 49ers created a population boom

  •Immigration increased diversity of population

  •California became a state in 1 year

  •Growth of new businesses and industry transformed California’s economy

  •Gold mining was important, but farming and ranching grew

  •Discrimination of Californios and Native Americans

• •Immigration increased diversity of population

  •California became a state in 1 year

  •Growth of new businesses and industry transformed California’s economy

  •Gold mining was important, but farming and ranching grew

California Gold Rush was started in what year

• 1848

• 1849

• 1839

• 1829

Define the term Boomtown

• slow growing community

• fast growing community

• Medium growing community

• Large growing community

Famine and economic hardship in China brought many Chinese to California. However, they faced discrimination and a high tax on foreign miners.

• True

• False

People mainly moved West during the California gold rush in 1849 because?

• they wanted religious freedom

• they were interested in fishing

• they had hopes of getting rich

• .they wanted to trade with Native Americans

Fill in the blank:

In 1849, about 80,000 gold seekers, known as _______, came to California hoping to strike it rich.

In the late 1840s what name was given to the view that supported the growth of the American nation from coast to coast?

• Federalism

• Isolationism

• States’ rights

• Manifest Destiny

American expansionists believed in the idea of Manifest Destiny. a journalist, coined the phrase in 1845. Who was he?

• John L. O’Susan

• John L. O’Savior

• John L. O’Samuel

• John L. O’Sullivan

Fill in the blank:

President Polk believed it was our manifest destiny, or “obvious fate” to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread_________-.