How Did The French Revolution Affect The Spread Of California

The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848. News of Marshall’s discovery brought thousands of immigrants to California from elsewhere in the United States and from all over the world. Under the flag of "gold seeking", the populations of California increased dramatically. Resulting in a rapid immigration of people from other parts of the world into the lands of California. For example, as of San Francisco, population significantly raised over 20,000 by 1850. The French Argonauts wanted to have equality of opportunities as the locals in California to explore the Gold enterprise in the region; these expectations were shut down by the natives in an attempt to safeguard what was rightfully theirs. A buoyant feeling motivated the rush

After the 1789 reforms, the French allies became stronger than the Great Britain and began to employ radical and violent acts against their initial supporters, the Federalists, the Democrats, and the Republicans. As a result, the Democrats-Republican Party experienced a vast division with the Federalist Party who wanted to maintain a good relation with Britain. However, due to the potential economic devastations that would hit America, the both parties later came to an agreement to remain neutral during the war between France and Britain. The French Immigration to the US illustrated various experiences in the limits of equality, access to land, and citizenship in the mid-19th Century in the history of

There was never mass immigration of the French people, but rather; they came as an influx of minor groups and their population increased rapidly. The availability of gold in California attracted about 30, 000 French Argonauts between the year 1849 and 1851 (Wilson, p.12). After the news about the gold had spread to many regions, the immigrants from Chinese and other parts of the world rushed into the region in vast numbers leading the United States to adjust the immigration laws to limit the numbers and reduce the rights of foreign immigrants. Later in the 19th era, the French political activities following the war between France and European nations resulted in numerous limits to equality between the native Californians and the immigrants. The Congress reinforced the Alien and Sedition Acts and raised the limitations for aliens to acquire the US citizenship (Wilson, p.24). The act also gave the president powers to deport all illegal aliens from the US; the head of state was mandated to ensure that all foreign male citizens above the age of 14 were deported to their homelands during the war eras. There were also restrictions that banned political and insisting speeches by the aliens in the region as these statements would result in a back clash between the foreigners and the Native