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The United States acquired a huge section of the Midwest from France.
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They were always writing something down in their journals to report back to the president.
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Over a course of 7 years approximently 300 thousand people joined in on the gold rush.
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No surgeons who performed surgeries on the wounded soldiers washed their hands because to them it was all the same.
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It promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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The first man to take advantage of the "Homestead Act" was Daniel Freeman, a Union Army Scout.
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Leland Stanford broke the ground in Sacremento beginning the long hard years of constructing the Union Pacific Railroad.
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The "Golden Spike" was driven into the ground by Leland Stanford.
