How did the Gold Rush of 1849 affect the issue of enslavement? It made enslavers more interested in mining gold than planting cotton, reducing tensions about the future of enslavement. It led to popular sovereignty in the states of Kansas and Nebraska. It caused conflict as both anti-enslavement and pro-enslavement supporters rushed to one region. It encouraged many settlers to go to California, speeding up its application to be a free state.

The Gold Rush undoubtedly sped up California's admission to the Union as the 31st state. In late 1849, California applied to enter the Union with a constitution that barred the Southern system of racial slavery, provoking a crisis in Congress between proponents of slavery and anti-slavery politicians.

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states began imposing duties on each other's goods. congress had no way to raise money for an army to expel them.

the installment plan of the 1920s, an arrangement that allowed people to buy what they wanted with a small down payment and pay off the rest in monthly installments, provided americans a way to own what they did not have the money to buy.