The California gold rush was on January 24 1848 and it’s significant bc it created a lasting impact of industrial and agricultural development.
Cold War should be correct! :)
The United States sent several billion dollars to aid the Nationalists in China because the leaders feared that a Nationalist defeat would create a communist superpower.
Many immigrants from Europe began working in factories and producing goods used by people in the North. Many factories began producing textiles (cloth) with the cotton grown in the South. The economy of the South was based on agriculture.