This rush of people to California was better known as the gold rush. With the population of people booming in California it became apparent that there was a need for a government to be formed. Due to this need in 1849 the …show more content…
Then if you factor the number of the 17,000 that were said to have joined into the civil war and divided the two you get 22.4 or 22 percent of the population that took part in the war. As it said in the article "The Civil War in California" the number that joined was over 17,000. So in total 22 percent or greater of California's population in 1860 enlisted in to the Civil war, but this was not all at once this was over the period of time the civil war took place and this was only a rough …show more content…
It is said that it was from Spanish conquistadors who thought they had found a mystical island based on a book that was published in 1510. In the book it was said that a queen named "Califia" was a ruler of black amazons that had lots of pearls and gold. So when the Spaniards found the supposed Island of "California" in 1535 they named it California because they found pearls and gold there. The real reason why California was named California was because when the Spanish first discovered it they called it the Baja California peninsula. They called it the Island of California then because the Spanish believed that it was an Island and not connected at all to the rest of North