Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Early Settlement of the West.
The massive wave of approximately 100,000 migrants who travelled to California in 1849 searching for gold.
'49ers appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Early Settlement of the West and Migration and Early Settlement.
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