Download presentation
1
Growth of the West 14.4
2
California Gold Rush 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”
3
Sutter’s Mill
4
San Francisco became the fastest growing city in America
By 1850, California could petition for state-hood
5
Prospecting for Gold Few had experience Few actually got rich
Mining towns quickly turned to ghost towns
6
Placer Mining
7
Gold Attracted Immigrants
Over 10,000 entered CA in 1849 alone Most were Irish, German, Swiss 24,000 Chinese Immigrants in CA by 1853.
11
Chinese Immigrants faced a lot of Discrimination
15
Levi Strauss A Jewish-German Immigrant who founded the 1st company that made blue-jeans for miners in San Fransisco
16
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
17
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.
19
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
Similar presentations
© 2024 SlidePlayer.com. Inc.
All rights reserved.