<P> California's name became indelibly connected with the Gold Rush, and fast success in a new world became known as the "California Dream ." California was perceived as a place of new beginnings, where great wealth could reward hard work and good luck . Historian H.W. Brands noted that in the years after the Gold Rush, the California Dream spread across the nation: </P> <P> The old American Dream...was the dream of the Puritans, of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard"... of men and women content to accumulate their modest fortunes a little at a time, year by year by year . The new dream was the dream of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck . (This) golden dream...became a prominent part of the American psyche only after Sutter's Mill . </P> <P> Overnight California gained the international reputation as the "golden state". Generations of immigrants have been attracted by the California Dream . California farmers, oil drillers, movie makers, airplane builders, and "dot - com" entrepreneurs have each had their boom times in the decades after the Gold Rush . </P> <P> Included among the modern legacies of the California Gold Rush are the California state motto, "Eureka" ("I have found it"), Gold Rush images on the California State Seal, and the state nickname, "The Golden State", as well as place names, such as Placer County, Rough and Ready, Placerville (formerly named "Dry Diggings" and then "Hangtown" during rush time), Whiskeytown, Drytown, Angels Camp, Happy Camp, and Sawyers Bar . The San Francisco 49ers National Football League team, and the similarly named athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach, are named for the prospectors of the California Gold Rush . </P>

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