The gold rush brought thousands of people to California.
The Espionage and Sedition Acts(1917 and 1918)allowed a citizen to be fined or imprisoned for speaking out against the government or the war effort. Benefits of these actions include streamlining war production and removing obstacles to the war effort.
The group that invaded the Slavic homeland beginning in the ninth century was A. Varangians.
Varangian was a Greek and East-Slavic term for a Viking.
Those lands were wealthy with gold, jewels, and spices.