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Growth of the West 14.4

California Gold Rush 1849 - 1853 Gold is discovered near Sutter’s Mill in Northern California 100,000 flock out to CA to strike it rich! Forty-Niners: those who caught “gold-fever”

Sutter’s Mill

San Francisco became the fastest growing city in America By 1850, California could petition for state-hood

Prospecting for Gold Few had experience Few actually got rich Mining towns quickly turned to ghost towns

Placer Mining

Gold Attracted Immigrants Over 10,000 entered CA in 1849 alone Most were Irish, German, Swiss 24,000 Chinese Immigrants in CA by 1853.

Chinese Immigrants faced a lot of Discrimination

Levi Strauss A Jewish-German Immigrant who founded the 1st company that made blue-jeans for miners in San Fransisco

The Church of Latter-Day Saints Founded by Joseph Smith in New York in 1830 Believed he had found a 5th Gospel to the Bible called the Book of Mormon

Mormons Some practiced Polygamy: being married to more than one woman. Their beliefs were seen as strange to most Americans They faced peresecution Mormons were pushed from place to place.

War & Assassination force them West 1844: Smith was murdered by an angry mob in Illinois Brigham Young led the Mormon Church to their “promised land” in Utah They settled near Great Salt Lake

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