Gold. Fur Trade. Hopes of new ways to live. Possible factories. Possible farmland.
to find gold
After gold was discovered in California, many people decided to become forty-niners, or people who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849.
They came to find gold that they had heard was in that area, and hoped to become rich.
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.
prospectors
The Forty niners
To find God, gold and glory.
yes. It caused people to move west so they could try to find gold.
try to find the 7 cities of gold
Fourty-Niners.
pirates are like old historic people that used to sail the sea and try to find gold duhhh
In a gold mine.
I do not know try to search for it.
I do not know try to search for it.
No. People didn't look through hair to find gold. Most men were not very clean.
Try the website www.goldplater.com. They do professional gold and platinum plating.