| A | B |
|---|
| Mormons | Largest group of settlers to move into the Mexican Cession |
| Joseph Smith | founder of Mormons in 1830 |
| Mormon beliefs | Man could have more than one wife/property owed in common |
| Brigham Young | New Mormon leader after Smith is killed |
| Great Salt Lake valley | New home of Mormons in Utah |
| James Marshall | Found gold at Sutter's Mill in Jan. 1848 |
| "forty-niners" | the 80'000 plus people who rushed to CA in 1849 for GOLD! |
| San Francisco | small town turned bustling city because of gold rush |
| vigilantes | self-appointed law officers |
| 1850 | year CA was admitted to the Union as a free state |
| 100,000 to 17,000 | Decline of Native Americans in CA because of starvation or disease |
| 5,10, or 25 pounds | weight of some gold nuggets |
| Chinese | Began to arrive in America around 1848 |
| African Americans | Many rich in CA but still denied basic rights |
| 100,000 | Population in CA by 1860 |
