What were three motivations for westward expansion? There are gold rushes and mining opportunities (silver in Nevada) Cowboy jobs are available, as well as faster travel to the West because of ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Westward expansion has been mythologized onscreen for more than a century—and its depiction has ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward ... was California, where gold was discovered in 1848. The California Gold Rush swept the ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward ... was California, where gold was discovered in 1848. The California Gold Rush swept the ...

The unquenchable demand for gold spurred a mass migration and fueled ... imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to California Robert Klara Before Alaska became an American state, Russia ...

For many, growing up on the US west coast ... their hunt for gold. But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story. Historians tell Insider the era touted for discovery and expansion is ...