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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.

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