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because there was a plague in their country, a shortage on food, and their government sucked so they heard in America the streets are just PAVED with gold, so off they went...
Legends of Cibola suggested great riches, such as one that suggested "the city streets were paved with gold." In actuality, no huge accumulation of gold was made by any Native American tribes. The much smaller amounts that the Spanish found had been mined over hundreds of years with primitive technology.
The Americans migrated from Asia to the Americans in search of food and in search of a better climate.
Immgration is when people came from Europe because they thought that the roads were paved with gold. In the United states
The Mormons had already paved a way to the west right before the gold rush. They had already planted crops, leaving colonies along the trail and soon profited by providing the gold seekers with needed supplies.
That's almost it. "City Where the Streets are Paved with Gold". It's based on Revelation 21:21: "The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass." So, as you see, the Bible doesn't say, "paved" (or streets either -- it's one street).
Dick Whittington went to London because he believed the streets were paved with gold.
A place where one may find one's fortune.
Those who thought that the streets were paved with gold, or that there would be no antisemitism, were disillusioned.
Rv:21:21: And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
It made a lot of immigrants think that life in America was easy and that it was so rich that the streets were paved gold.
Streets of Gold was created in 2009.
The value of gold would drop to that of blacktop. Roads would become very shiny and slippery. Road surface wear would increase. We'd probably get to see new tire designs.
Public roads, no.
Streets of Gold - song - was created in 1988.
The book Every Street is Paved with Gold was written by Woo-Choong Kim.
Houdini came to America when he was four because of his father. They lived in the poor Jewish slum of Budapest in Hungary. Houdini's father heard rumors nthat America's streets were paved with gold. He took a ship over to New York, only to find that the streets were in fact NOT paved with gold. It took Houdini's father two years to scrape enough money togther to bring the family over. When he finally got the money, they settled in Appleton, Wisonsin.