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Why was the California Gold Rush important?

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The discovery of gold and the ensuing stampede to the mines reduced California's Indian population (by far the majority in 1845) from around 150000 to 30000 in a single decade, due to disease, dislocation, starvation, and outright murder. (White... read more

The inclusion of California as a (nominally) Free State was strictly attributable to the Gold Rush. California's entry wildly exacerbated tensions between the North and South and came within a hair of triggering a civil war in 1850. read more

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