It had a major contribution by having immigrants go from their home country to the US for the money to move west thanks to the Gold and Silver in California.
The reasoning why that is because in San Francisco in 1849 had the major Gold Rush and they had Silver for almost 20 years worth of resources of that product. The San Francisco Gold Rush in California to lead to migration to westward expansion and left with boom towns.
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