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What happened was the men wanted to get to the gold rush areas so they went. The main colonies in Sydney and Melbourne were becoming smaller in population and that's not what the government wanted.

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It played a significant role in the westward expansion.

It is said it also might have started the civil war.

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The gold rush helped to change the face of the west by populating it with settlers from the east and immigrants from other continents who traveled to California to mine for gold.

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When Did The WestWard Expansion Start?

The westward Expansion started after the gold rush in 1849.


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