Title: The Gold Rush Benefits - California Gold Rush
Headings: Benefits to the Rush
Benefits to the Rush
Content: The Gold Rush also helped California achieve statehood in 1850. Belonging to the United States meant a stable government and military protection. California’s statehood helped people pursue the transcontinental railroad linking America's east and west coasts. The gold rush was great to California and even benefited the United States as a whole. If it had not have been for the California Gold Rush, the USA would not have changed in many good ways. The gold rush helped the U.S. federal government. Since the United States spent so much money on the Mexican War, the Gold Rush helped bring back money into the treasury. " I have no hesitation in saying there is more gold in the country drained by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers than will pay the cost of the war with Mexico a hundred times over." Mason, an investigator of the river wrote this in a letter to Washington. The money from the gold rush helped finance the Civil War.