HIST 2610 1st Edition Lecture 27 Outline of Last Lecture Exam #3Outline of Current Lecture Settlement of CaliforniaSettlement of UtahBackgroundCurrent LectureSettlement of California There were about 8000 Hispanics in California at this time as well as lots of Indians. The Camino Real was the main highway. Americans had been coming to these ports but not staying there. Soon after the Mexican war and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, gold was found. The big gold strike in California spiked the Gold Rush of 1849. There were 500 Americans in 1846. Within a year after the gold strike there war 100,000 Americans. They took boats down tothe Isthmus of Panama to take boats there.-California under Spanish and Mexican rule. -Discovery of Gold in California (1848)-Routes Used by the Forty-Niners-Growth of California. Settlement of Utah-Founding of Mormon Sect-Mormons Settle in Utah-Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857)They were always persecuted and looked on as a sect. They went to Missouri thinking there would be peace for them and there wasn't. Wasn't in Illinois either. Joseph Smith started this sect. He was murdered. Young took over the sect. He envisioned a place called Zion out in the middle of American in These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Utah. So came the Mormon movement to Utah. They went to Europe to recruit followers. They brought people to Utah in 1846. Sectionalism and Slavery Lead to Disunion - Sectionalism still exists today!Background-factors giving rise to sectionalism-sectional views differ on key political issues-conflicting views on the nature of the union-the slavery issue splits the nation-free and slave states. The union was a contract between people and that the only body that could rule on the conditionality of a law was the US Supreme court. Webester said Liberty in union now and forever. Many powerful people were beginning to disagree on decisions in the nationBy 1760 there were about 300 slaves in the south. 100, 000 in the north. SOuth was mostly agricultural labor - tobacco, cotton, sugar, cattle. Mainly servants there. So slavery was decliningby the time the revolution came. People became skeptical about slavery. After the revolution, the northers mostly phased out slavery. It was happening in the south as well until Eli Whitney came along and reinvigorated slavery because they could process cotton more quickly. Slavery started blooming again. The declining numbers in 1790 quickly changed and by 1850 there were3 million. 3/4 of southerners did not own any slaves. the other 1/4 owned five or fewer. The large plantation owners owned 50 or more slaves. The southerners believe that it is their God given right to practice slavery. Things kept boiling for a while around the end of the "Era of Good Feelings" around 1818-1819. At this point things are breaking down. There is going to be a panic in 1819. There are 22 states now in the union. 11 are free and 11 have slaves. The congressmen want to keep the
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