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What are the prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 called?
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y ago49ers. The rush began in 1848, but was declared by Polk in 1849.
Yes this is also where the San Francisco 49ers derive their name.
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∙ 13y ago49ers because that was the year that the gold rush went crazy in
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∙ 11y agoforty niners
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who were they?
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Where did the name forty-niners come from?
Prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849.
Why were the people called the 49'ers in the gold rush?
People were called 49ers b/c the gold rush happened in 1849, sum 80,000 people migrating to California in search of gold. People in fewer numbers also migrated in 1848, they were called 48ers.
What were the California 49ers named after?
The were named after the people who came to California during the gold rush in 1849.
Near which state capital in the west was gold discovered in 1849?
Sacramento, California is the state capital in the west where they discovered gold in 1849.
Why were they called fortyniners?
The forty niners were called the forty niners because the gold rush was in 1849.
What was the relationship between the forty-niners and the gold rush?
the prospectors who flocked to California in 1849
What did the Gold Rush have on the growth of California?
Among the so-called forty-niners, the prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 in the gold rush, were people from Asia, South America, and Europe. San Francisco's population exploded from 1,000 in 1848 to 35,000 in 1850.
Who were the 49erss?
They were gold prospectors who came to California in 1849.
In 1849 large numbers of people flocked to California to prospect for?
Gold
Why were gold rush prospectors called 49ers?
They were referred to as "49ers" because that was the year the California gold rush started (1849).
What effects did the gold rush have on Sacramento?
Among the so-called forty-niners, the prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 in the gold rush, were people from Asia, South America, and Europe. San Francisco's population exploded from 1,000 in 1848 to 35,000 in 1850.
What is a 49er?
Someone from the California gold rush in 1849.
What was another name for the miners of gold?
Gold miners could be called prospectors. Some prospectors who sought their fortunes during the California gold rush were called 49ers. (That gold rush began in 1848, but was really roaring in 1849, hence the nickname for those prospectors.)
Why did prospectors head west in 1849?
my d i c k
What were the people called who flocked to California?
Assuming you mean people that came to Western America during the gold-rush... Forty-Niners ...As this mass movement of people sparked by the discovery of large amounts of gold happened in 1849.
Where did the name forty-niners come from?
Prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849.
Which event took place first- the California Gold Rush or the Civil War?
The gold rush famously prompted the '49ers - gold prospectors - to flock to California in 1849. The Civil War didn't start until 1860.
