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Why did people settle in southern colonies?
to find gold
What were the three ways people could get to California to try and find their fortune?
Gold. Fur Trade. Hopes of new ways to live. Possible factories. Possible farmland.
On whose land was gold found in California in 1848?
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.
Why did Spanish explorers come to California?
They came to find gold that they had heard was in that area, and hoped to become rich.
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.
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