Explain the impact of the discovery of gold in California on the development of the Wes

The gold brought in major profits but destroyed a lot of the region’s land

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.