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California already had a large unemployed population--most of them recent migrants from the 1920s. ... Most of the first migrants to arrive in California were from Oklahoma.
Earlier in the 1700s, the French & Indian war happened in which Great Britain was involved in. They made taxes so they could pay all of their soldiers for fighting in the war.
The Pilgrims tried to survive on stale food left over from their long voyage. Many of the Pilgrims were sick. Many of them died, probably of pneumonia and scurvy. ... Of the 132 Pilgrims and crew who left England, only fifty-three of them survived the first winter.
