Gold was discovered in California on January 24, 1848.
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After a discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California, in 1848 fortune-hunters, lanky nest and big family's, headed west
To take part in the California Gold Rush
The the northern states didn't oppose the western movement. With the passage of the Homestead Act people flocked to western Territories. In 1849 with the discovery of gold in California thousands came to look for gold and within a year the population was large enough to become a stated. The idea of the "north" was only during the civil war when the 12 southern states left the union in 1861.
Levi Strauss invented jeans during the California Gold Rush.
the gold rush. the majority of them wanted their share of the fortune being made in california