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What effect did president Polk’s final state of the union message have on the discovery of gold in California

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It Created Gold Rush

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The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood, in the Compromise of 1850.

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