President Polk advertised the idea of Manifest Destiny. And this ideology never caused anyone to settle in the US west. At the end of the Mexican-American War, the U.S. gained an area of land called the Mexican Cession. California was part of this. It became a state as part of the Compromise of 1850. California was populated mostly by migrant workers near the time of it's annexation, but events such as the gold rush caused many to see California as a place of wealth and prosperity. Many citizens traveled to California to seek gold and to take advantage of cheap prices of land.
Wagon trains of '49ers on their way to the California gold fields-
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It is not wagon trains. Groups of covered wagons are called prairie schooners. But we can also call it wagon trains, I guess.
The first modern horses in California were brought by the Spanish.The first cattle in California were brought by settlers on wagon trains from the US.
To travel by land in wagon trains, it took two months.
chuck wagon
The pioneers migrated west with the help of the covered wagon and wagon trains. The wagon trains were the safest form of travel because of the sheer volume of people.
The wagon trains were to form a circle when they were being attacked.
Wagon trains.
By land.
pioneers found high spots in the river to cross with their wagon
out in the open, in circles with their wagon trains