Chpt 11 sect 4

-James Marshall was sent to built a sawmill for John Sutter and glanced at the ground and saw a gold nugget (1848)

• -Sail around S. America
• -Sail to Panama/cross jungle/sail to CA
• -Cross N. America overland

-young unmarried men that came from around the world to find gold

1852

-CA's white population rose rapidly in 1850, CA became a state which led to sectional problems in Senate

• -CA became an economic center for U.S. in West
• -San Francisco became a major U.S. city

-Native Americans lost lands; were enslaved; died of diseases; were hunted and killed by whties

-Californios lost land, wealth, economic and political power

-land was needed for transcontinental railroad to connect CA to rest of U.S.