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Here's the extended info with the quotes and summaries: Welcome to San Francisco! The year is 1846. California is just a piece of US territory, and San Francisco is an unheard-of-fishing town with a population of 500 people. The year is now 1952, thousands of people flocked to San Francisco for a place to stay while they mined. San Francisco’s population exploded to over 150,000 people! While San Francisco’s infrastructure was heavily overhauled, there were still so many new people that they started living in makeshift tents and structures, " Almost overnight, the gold rush transformed San Francisco into a booming city filled with makeshift tent-houses, hotels, stores, saloons, gambling halls, and shanties." Although the fishing industry still existed after the Gold Rush, importing and exporting goods became a much more profitable business, "China started exporting significant amounts of sugar, and Norway eyed California for opportunities to expand its naval shipping industry." Also, with the huge explosion in population, San Francisco began to expand its land into the ocean! In the words of National Geographic, (summarized) although most miners didn't even earn a small fortune from all of the gold, for better or worse, the lasting effects of the California Gold Rush of 1949 would forever change San Francisco and California as a whole.
