Select all the correct answers. Which three of the following goals represent the aspirations of Americans in the nineteenth century? finding gold in California gaining the right to vote moving to Asian countries returning to their home country owning a farm in the West
The biggest and most famous Gold Rush was the one from 1849 when gold was discovered in California near Sacramento.
The first golden lump, found by James Marshall - January 24, 1848, at a location 55 miles northeast of Sacramento in the American River Basin.
After this sensational discovery, the following year, in 1849, 80,000 diggers and all sorts of adventurers floated, and by 1853 their number had climbed to 250,000.
Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. Daily newspaper editor and former slave Frederick Douglass delivers a speech in support of the right to vote for all citizens. The convention adopts a resolution seeking to give women the right to vote.
