1849
California gold discovery
1849 is the year, typically referenced in historical contexts.
The California Gold Rush brought thousands of prospectors—the "forty-niners"—to seek fortune.
The 49ers football team takes its name from the Gold Rush miners of 1849.
The year also saw revolutionary movements across Europe and the deaths of Edgar Allan Poe and Frédéric Chopin.
1849 gold rush migrants
- Sutter's Mill1848 gold discovery location
- prospectorsMineral deposit searchers
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- panningLateral camera traverse
claims · boomtowns · motherlode · placer · nuggets · diggings · goldfield · sluice
Obvious, inescapable fate
- westwardToward the sunset
- frontierEdge of settlement
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
Oregon Trail · wagon train · homestead · territory · annexation · prairie schooner · land grab · migration
Of a prim era
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- telegraphElectrical message system
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
daguerreotype · gaslight · cholera · clipper ships · transcontinental · abolitionism · serfdom · revolutions
Central European republic
- RomeItaly's capital city
- HabsburgEuropean imperial dynasty
- republicanismGovernment by elected officials
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
barricades · democratic movements · counterrevolution · exile · refugees · political reform
forty-niners
1849 gold rush migrants
- Sutter's Mill1848 gold discovery location
- prospectorsMineral deposit searchers
- miningExtracting earth's resources
panning · claims · boomtowns · motherlode · placer · nuggets · diggings · goldfield · sluice · flume
manifest destiny
Obvious, inescapable fate
settlers · Oregon Trail · wagon train · homestead · territory · annexation · prairie schooner · land grab · migration · colonization
Victorian
Of a prim era
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- telegraphElectrical message system
railroads · daguerreotype · gaslight · cholera · clipper ships · transcontinental · abolitionism · serfdom · revolutions · Thoreau
Hungary
Central European republic
- RomeItaly's capital city
- HabsburgEuropean imperial dynasty
- republicanismGovernment by elected officials
nationalism · barricades · democratic movements · counterrevolution · exile · refugees · political reform
18491865
Civil War's conclusion year
1861 · 1864 · Civil War era · 1862 · Reconstruction