The correct answer is B) creating economic opportunity for those who provided goods and services to the miners.
The other options of the question were A) creating a large group of wealthy miners. C) resulting in the expansion of tourism in the Southwest. D) giving rise to private schools as families sought to recreate the East.
In the 1850s, mining grew in the Southwest, creating economic opportunities for those who provided goods and services to the miners.
In the 1850s, and once California had entered the Union, people emigrated to this state to work in the mines trying to find gold and getting rich. Native American Indians who lived in those territories confronted the white people because they believed those lands belonged to their ancestors and were not there to be exploited to profit from the raw materials.
