342.California
Before the treaty of peace with Mexico was ratified , even before it was signed , gold was discovered in Califor - nia . Reports of the discovery soon reached the towns on the western seacoast . At once men left whatever they were doing and hastened to the hills to dig for gold . Months later rumors of this discovery began to reach the eastern part of the United States . At first people paid lit - tle attention to them . But when President Polk said that gold had been found , people began to think that it must be true . Soon hundreds of gold - seekers started for California . Then thou - sands became eager to go . These first comers were called the Forty - Niners , because most of them came n the year 1849.By the end of that year there were eighty thousand immigrants in California .
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