CHAP. 4 GOLD

F. Lopez 1842

James Marshall

Sutter’s Mill, 1848 (Coloma)

GOLD!

Little interest

Gradual

48 ers

global

1848-1852: $200 mil.

“Easy” gold

WEST

LIFE

Diverse Monotonous Male/female?

ENTERTAINMENT

Gambling

WOMEN

Adventure, opportunity Divorce: liberal, common

Many Prostitutes

PROSTITUTION

$$$ Many “colored”

Structured

Economics, social? Conditions

Human trafficking?

ANTI-FOREIGN

“Sonorans”

Chinese Driven out

Taxes

JOAQUIN MURRIETA

First legends

Pablo Neruda

Villain

CALIFORNIOS

Land loss Owners became workers

SIGNIFICANCE

Pop. ++

Industries

Indios, Californios?

Statehood: 1850

Time period?

Slavery?

CONSTITUTION

Boundaries?

Suffrage? White males Natives?

WOMEN?

Property/ownership

??

Attract rich women!

ESPANOL?

Required all laws in English AND Spanish

1850

CA into Union

No law enforcement

vigilantes

Committees

Self-rule

Arbitrary

Not good for “colored”

JUANITA

1851

SILVER

Comstock Lode

LEVI STRAUSS

1853 Wholesale

Jacob Davis Riveted “overalls”

“Jeans”: 1950’s

agriculture

Wheat

viticulture

Napa, Sonoma

50% nation’s wine

Lumber, manufacturing

S.F.

Pony express

Relay

Miss. R. to S.F.: 10 days

Telegraph?

rail

Central Pacific

Chinese

1869