C 12, Sec 4 California and Utah

Miners were called forty-niners. Often lived in camps called boomtowns.

Gold Camps were lawless, relied on vigilantes for justice.

Gold Rush more than doubled the world’s supply of gold.

Discovery of gold led to rapid growth and eventual statehood for California

The Mormons settled in Utah.

Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church, received the ideas of Mormonism by an angel.

Mormon migration 1846, Brigham Young led them to Utah

Largest single migration in American History.

a. 12,000 Mormons made the trek. b. The Mormon Trail.

A Religious Refuge in Utah

Rapid growth in both population and

economic activity.

Need for more effective government, resulting in California writing a constitution and statehood in 1850.

* California and Texas are the only two states, to gain statehood without territorial status.

Utah did not become a state until 1896, due to religious differences.

Factors that affected the settlement of California and Utah