California gold rush

California gold rush • 1849

JOHN SUTTER’S MILL • Mexican Land Grant • 50,000 acres in California • Dream – estate in the wilderness • 18,000 head of horse, cattle, pigs, etc.

January 1848 *JAMES MARSHAL FOUND LOTS OF GOLD IN A DITCH *DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD SOON LEEKED OUT

Gold RUSH • MORE THAN 80,OOO PEOPLE CAME TO CLIFORNIA FOR GOLD IN 1849 • THEY WERE CALLED FORTY-NINERS • MANY CAME BY SEA • 300 MEN ARRIVED FROM CHINA

CALIFORNIOS • TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO ENDED THE WAR WITH MEXICO • THE LAND LAW OF 1851 MADE UP A GROUP OF PEOPLE TO REVIEW THE CALIFORNIOS LAND RIGHTS

LIFE IN CALIFORNIA • BUILT NEW COMMUNITIES CALLED BOOMTOWNS • SAN FRANSICO GREW FROM A TINY VILLAGE TO CITY OF ABOUT 20,000 PEOPLE • CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH MORE THAN DOUBLED THE WORLDS SUPPLY OF GOLD

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROGRESS • GOLD RUSH ENDED IN A FEW YEARS BUT HAD LASTING EFFECTS ON CALFORNIAS ECONOMY • CALIFORNIA APPLIED TO CONGRESS FOR STATE HOOD IN MARCH 1850 • CALIFORNIAS CONSTITUTION BANNED SLAVERY

RELIGIOUS REFUGE IN UTAH • VISITOR TO THE UTAH TERRITORY IN THE 1850 WROTE ADMIRINGLY • MORMONS MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATER DAY SAINTS • MORMONS HAD COME TO UTAH TO FULFILL THEIR VISION OF THE GODLY LIFE

FIRST MORMONS • JOSEPH SMITH FOUND THE CHURCH IN 1830 IN NEW YORK STATE • SUPPORTED POLYGAMY,THE IDEA THAT A MAN COULD HAVE MORE THAN ONE WIFE • IN 1844 A MOB IN ILLONOIS KILLED SMITH

HAVEN IN THE DESERT • MORMON MIGRATION TO TH E GREAT SALT LAKE BAGAN IN 1846 • 1848 UNITED STATES ACQUIREDTHE SALT LAKE AREA AS PART OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO • 1857 AND 1858 WAR ALMOST BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE MORMONS AND THE UNITED STATES ARMY

Term of Expansion • Tennessee governor as their nominee for president in 1844 • United states pushed its boundaries to the Pacific wrestling CALIFORNIA and the southwest from MEXICO admitting TEXAS to the UNION and crowding BRITAIN out of the PACIFIC Northwest

Latter-day Saints Find Their Zion • SMITH WAS THE PROPHET OF THE ONE TRUE CHURC • MORMONS FIRST FLED NEW YORK,THE OHIO,THEN MISSOURI,THEN ILLINOIS BOFORE HEADING EN MASSE TOWARD THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY • 1847 PARTY SET OUT WITH 72 WAGONS FROM A CAMP NEAR OMAHA,FORGED A NEW ROAD ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE PLATTER RIVER,AND ARRIVED MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS LATER AT THEIR PROMISED LAND

Buying Santa Fe 900 Miles at a Time • In 1821 Newly independent Mexico opened Santa Fe to American trade • Within a few years the Santa Fe trail from Missouri was loaded with wagon trains full of manufactured goods • Americans emptied Santa Fe of silver coins by mid-1820s • By the time the Mexican war Began U.S. was so dominate of the economy that the governer did not resist the takeover

IN THE END • THE POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA INCREASED DRAMATICLY OVER THE YEARS EVER SINCE GOLD WAS FOURATED TO THE GREAT SALT LAKE BUT SINCE UNDED • THE MORMONS MIGATED TO THE GREAT SALT LAKE UNTILL U.S MADE IT A SETTLEMENT OF THE WITH MEXICO • THE MORMONS HAD CONFLICTS WITH FEDERAL OFFICIALS AND WAR ALMOST BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE MORMONS AND THE U.S ARMY

California gold rush