In what ways did the gold rush and migration of the forty-niners affect the territory of California? Include details about how Californios and others who had long lived there were impacted as well as how this area was transformed so quickly.

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Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.