What event led many to move west I hopes of getting richer

The California Gold Rush  

Explanation:

There was a larger amounts of gold being found in California. So the poor spent all their money on supplies for gold mining and middle, even those who had larger sums of money sent people to go find gold and bring it back

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b.unemployment reached nearly 25 percent.