The California gold rush: a. hurt the development of San Francisco because gold discoveries shifted interest to areas outside of town. b. resulted in laws that discriminated against ""foreign miners."" c. made considerable wealth for average miners because gold mining demanded no real investment of capital. d. actually had only a small impact on California’s population because its rich farmlands already attracted thousands of new settlers each year. e. attracted almost equal numbers of men and women.

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?