Thomas Cole painted scenes of the American landscape.
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No, most weren't successful. The Sacramento Bee newspaper reported that "one in every five miners who came to California in 1849 was dead within six months." Those who lived to tell the tail found the work very hard. Most of those who became wealthy off gold were (1) lucky and (2) found their gold during the early days of the Gold Rush.
Actually, alot of those who got rich off the gold rush were the ones who ran businesses to support the prospectors' needs for clothing, equipment, etc.
D). a machine used to remove seeds from cotton
It would lead an anarchy (a government without order) because there would be no president to or constitution to set laws in place.
This region was also politically unstable as there were different ethnicities and there was also rising nationalism in the region. Nationalism brought about tensions. There was also rising Serbian nationalist groups. Combined with the brinkmanship of the European Powers the area became a fuse to the powder keg that Europe had become. The Balkans has strong Cultural, Religious, and language ties to the surrounding Empires but they were in small pockets making nation building difficult.
