ALEXIS RUIZ

CALIFORNIA

GOLD RUSH

• In 1848, a treaty was made in which California became a part of U.S. territory.

• Workers building a sawmill in the newly acquired territory of California, happened to find pieces of gold in the river bed.

• Rumors were spread that there was gold in the west, when rumors made it to the east coast most people headed for California.

• Some gold was then shipped to Washington where later the rumor was then known as a fact.

DECLARATION OF ADMISSION

• Settlers in California decided to create their own order in California.

• The settlers then later created a state constitution and demanded California admission as a state.

• Most of the forty-niners wanted slavery banned in their newly announced state.

• The reason for banned slavery is because rich people owning slaves would easily be able to excavate gold with their slaves.

ACCEPTANCE

• California was accepted as a state and was also allowed to ban slavery within the state.

• Henry Clay announced a comprise in which California must return slaves if they ever runaway to California.

• This new compromise did not only apply to California but to all free states.