With the Gold Rush came a huge increase in population and a pressing need for civil government. In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850.
Farming Frontier
-Pioneers moved west through a desire to make their fortune through the farming of previously unfarmed lands – too many people it was regarded as an extremely exciting opportunity, a chance of a new life.
<span>-The attraction of cattle farming encouraged people to move out west.</span>
The answer is the society.
Economics is focused on the problem of the society which is created by a world with limited resources and people with unlimited needs and wants.
