Answer: C.)
Step-by-step explanation:
Entrepreneurs made their way to California and wanted to find every opportunity to get rich off the gold
-California Gold
>the gold rush was a mass migration of miners and people who made money off the miners to california
>the migrants who left for california in 1849 were called forty-niners
>golden dreams brought people from around the world, but 80% of them came from the US
-Getting there
>by land following the california trail
>sailing around the southern tip of south america or south to panama, crossing central america by mule train, and then sailing north to california
>by 1854, as many as 300,000 people had migrated to california
Sources- Wikipedia -> Quizlet-