The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
The sudden influx of immigration and gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and California became one of the few American states to go directly to statehood without first being a territory, in the Compromise of 1850. The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and resulted in a precipitous population decline from disease, genocide and starvation.
Answer: d. She saved John Smith's life.
Explanation: Pocahontas was daughter to the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy who got married to John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia resulting in several years of peace between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians for several years. John Smith was an English adventurer who oversaw the survival efforts of the settlers of Jamestown and while his companions were killed by Powhatan warriors, he was spared and released through the intervention of Pocahontas.
Bacon's Rebellion was a result of this is that local legislatures would be responsible for looking out for the interests of all colonists and not just the wealthy.
This established an assumption that the American government would provide protection for everyone, not just a select few (the wealthy ones).
