Question

consider the challenges and opportunities facing a forty-niner what kinds of qualities do you think this kind of person would have to possess

Answer 1

I believe that forty-niners got the opportunity to get rich, but they would have to leave their families to (probably) spend a lot and not get rich. They would have to be hopeful and persistent.

Answer 2

The Forty-Niners were settlers who arrived in California in 1849 because gold was discovered at Sutters Mill. In that respect, about 80,000 forty-niners came to California hoping to become rich. Considering few of them had gold-mining experience, the average forty-niner would have been benefited from having a digging background, since it would have given them a way to succeed.