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The gold rush was a key factor in the expansion and growth of the United States. Prospectors moved west and flocked to towns in territories which are now in States like North and South Dakota, Colorado, California, and Oregon. They moved because they saw opportunity within the rocky hillsides and at the bottom of river beds. They headed west because they saw untapped opportunity. The gold was there. It just needed collection, refinement, and transformation…