Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Lesson at a Glance Outline
Chapter 15, Lesson 3: Migrating to California and Utah (pp. 383-388)
I. Early California
B. By the 1820s, about 3,000 Mexican settlers (called Californios) and 200,000 Indians lived in California.
C. Settlers from the United States arrived in the 1830s and 1840s.
D. In 1846 when the Mexican War broke out, many American settlers rebelled against the Mexican government. They wanted to make California part of the United States.
E. Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, California became a U.S. territory.
B. Thousands of people from all over the world arrived to look for gold.
C. California gold-mining towns were filled with violence and racial injustice.
D. Although only a few people struck it rich, the gold rush increased California's population and status as an important western land.
E. San Fransisco became a major city and helped to make California ready for statehood in 1850.
B. Brigham Young moved the Mormons to the Great Basin in the Rocky Mountains.
C. The Mormon settlement of Salt Lake City grew. Utah became a territory in 1849 and was eventually approved for statehood in 1896.
A. California had been part of Spanish Mexico since the 1500s.
II. The Gold Rush
A. In 1848, gold was discovered at John Sutter's mill in the Sacramento Valley.
III. A "Kingdom" in Utah
A. Founded in New York by John Smith in 1830, the Mormans kept moving west to worship God and raise their families in their own way.
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