HIST 1056/27/13- Post-Mexican Waro Now US owned land from Atlantic to Pacific oceans (How US is today)o Begins to divide US into north and southo California part of US- Conscience Whigs v. Cotton Whigso Eventually antislavery Whigs and democrats joined and created Free Soil Partyo Didn’t care about ending slavery, just wanted no more slave states- 1848 Electiono Still not split entirely into north and southo Taylor elected and died in office, replaced by Philmore- Astero Became richest man in America due to fur tradingo Created tension in US and Britaino Led to Oregon treaty- Suttero Was a Spanish citizen that was sold a Russian fort: Fort Rosso Created Sutter’s fort in sacramentoo Found gold in 1849 caused a gold rush to Californiao 32,000 crossed continent on foot,o Went from 18,000 non-indians to 100,000 non-indianso Shipped lots of immigrants from Mexico, Germany, China, France….- Californiao Lots of Gold but nothing elseo A super profitable business was selling supplies to minerso Discoveries of silver in Nevada brought more peopleo Great increase in population allowed California to become state- Compromise of 1850o California enters as free stateo Texas gives up ½ of New Mexico for $10 milliono New Mexico & Utah organized without slaveryo No more slave trade in USo Fugitive Slave Act: added rewards/penalties for assisting or preventing capture of slaves Clearly defined what should be done for or against slaves, for slave holders- Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853o Created multiple articles for newspaper, later combined to Uncle Tom’s Cabino Published as novel in 1852, caused sensation in north and Europeo Portrayed both sides of slavery, stated it was cruel but what could you do about it?- Manifest Destinyo Incentives to get land were strong and many Americans started westo Multiple routes had to be taken to feed animals grasso Needed 300,000 food per person on trailo Conestoga: large wagon took 6 to 8 animals to move and carried 6k lbo Schooner: smaller version that was easier to pull, carried 2.5k lbo Used plateaus and other large rocks as land marks due to flat ground- Mormon Trailo Salt Lake City hosted Mormonso Later fragmented over polygamy and those against polygamy moved away from Utaho He moved out to Utah to escape US but 2 years later Mexico ceded Utah to USo Proposed state of Deseret created for Mormons, US limited sizeo President was suspicious of Mormons and send new governor to Utaho Mormon leader claimed President would die and go to hell for bothering them- Utah Waro Salt Lake City was resupply point to people travelling westo US sent troops because of Moron claimo Local Mormons attack a wagon train and over 100 people diedo Utah received statehood after renouncing legal polygamy- Donner Party 1846o Headed for Spanish California from Illinoiso Got caught in Sierra Mountains in Nevada and cannibalism happened, some
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