"And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand. Behind them new tractors were going on to the land and the tenants were being forced off. And new waves were on the way, new waves of the dispossessed and the homeless, hardened, intent, and dangerous."
The author of this quotation is describing ________.

Pioneers riding westward along the Oregon Trail

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Prospectors hurrying to California during the Gold Rush of 1849

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Farmers leaving the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression

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Mexicans crossing the Rio Grande into the United States

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African Americans migrating west during Reconstruction

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The correct option is C Farmers leaving the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression
The quotation makes it clear that the migrants have been forced from their homes in areas east of California and that they were tenants there; this accurately describes the farmers of the Dust Bowl.

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Still, most people did not believe the news, until one man took a vial containing gold he’d found at “Sutter’s Creek” through the streets of Nueva Helvetica. The impact of this one event was enormous: three months later, 75% of men from San Francisco (at the time, known as Yerba Buena) were working in the gold mines. There were more than 4,000 people panning for gold by August of that year, when the New York Herald reported the discovery.

The Herald‘s announcement proved to be the tipping point of the gold rush. Many people gambled significant amounts of money and property on the venture, borrowing, mortgaging homes, and leaving their families to find their fortune in California. A reported 30,000 people traveled west across the United States to California in the spring of 1849 alone. Others traveled by water, an immense undertaking that involved sailing through Panama or even around the southern end of South America.

According to the passage, what was the major significance of the California gold rush?

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The correct option is C Farmers leaving the Dust Bowl during the Great DepressionThe quotation makes it clear that the migrants have been forced from their homes in areas east of California and that they were tenants there; this accurately describes the farmers of the Dust Bowl.

The correct option is C Farmers leaving the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression
The quotation makes it clear that the migrants have been forced from their homes in areas east of California and that they were tenants there; this accurately describes the farmers of the Dust Bowl.