How Did The California Gold Rush

In the years from 1846-1848 the US was at war with the Mexican government. In February of 1848 the US signed a treaty with the Mexican government that ended the war and from this treaty the US gained a vast portion of the southwest. This portion included California. The process of California joining the Union was sped up due to a large amount of gold that was found in a Sacramento River earlier before the treaty was signed. This discovery of gold caused an influx of people to move to California in search of their own gold.
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
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
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