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California gold rush. 1849. A Swiss Army General Becomes a Mexican Citizen Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA . Had 18,000 head of cattle He helped many settlers by giving them work when they arrived. January 1848 Gold is discovered. Sutter’s Mill. Sutter’s Mill.
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Californiagoldrush 1849
A Swiss Army General Becomes a Mexican Citizen Receives a 50,000 acre land grant in CA . Had 18,000 head of cattle He helped many settlers by giving them work when they arrived. January 1848 Gold is discovered. Sutter’s Mill
.People all over the world dropped what they were doing to go to California. 30,000 go by land .25,000 go by sea Gold fever
Almost all of San Francisco’s 900 residents left to chase gold. The city became a temporary ghost town. San Francisco
The San Francisco area was swarmed with people from all over the world. CaliforniaGold...free for the taking!
The Oregon Trail The early 1840’s “Oregon fever” swept through the Mississippi Valley. The depression caused by the Panic of 1837 had hit the region hard. People formed societies to gather information about Oregon and to plan and make long trip.
Miners and their families left Bodie, California, when gold could no longer be found in a nearby mine. Everything from buildings to checker games were left behind. Ghost Towns Photograph by James Stanfield
California Hits the Mother Lode 30,000 people set out for California, from Missouri another 25,000 are said to have made it to San Francisco by sea.
The land law of 1851 set up a group people to review the Californios’ land right .the Californios had to prove what land they owned. When a new settler claimed the to Californio’s land, the two parties would go to court. Some Californio’s were able to prove their claims. The Californios
