<p> Cornell Notes Guided Notes – “The Gold Rush” Glue onto Page: ______Changes in America The era before the ______saw presidents ______, Van Buren, ______(first to die in office – ______), and ______. There were ______states (Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan), and the ______- ______had dissolved. In their place arose the ______& ______Party. Social Changes in ______were occurring, with a growing movement of people coming to America from ______, Ireland, Germany, and ______. There were many ‘Push/Pull Factors’ that brought people to ______: Push: ______Growth; Agricultural Changes; ______Failures; ______& Political ______Pull: ______; Economic ______; Abundant Land The overcrowding in ______led to prejudice and the brief success of “The ______- ______Party.” Social Changes in ______& ______were also occurring. The movement in European art called ______stressed the individual, ______, creativity, and ______. James Fenimore ______(Last of the Mohicans in 1826), Noah ______(American ______in 1828) Henry Thoreau (Walden in 1854) Louisa May ______(Little Women in 1868) Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass in ______) Ralph Waldo ______(transcendentalism – people can find truth within themselves through ______and ______– “GUT FEELING”)</p><p>Slavery & Compromises In March 1848, the Mexicans made peace with the U.S. with the Treaty of Guadalupe ______. In it, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million and got ______and ______. The Rio Grande River became the southern boundary of ______. As a result, Mexicans became disgusted and humiliated. Later, the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 U.S. purchased another 26,640 square miles in southern New Mexico and ______from Mexico for $15 million to build a ______. During the mid-1800’s, several attempts were made to deal with ______with no success. Southerners saw their slaves as ______, which could be moved with them to new lands. The Missouri ______(1820) entered ______as free and ______as a slave state. The Compromise of 1850 brought ______into the Union as a ______state, but Congress agreed to make no laws regarding ______won in Mexican-American War. Before the War was over, the future of southwestern lands caused a strong debate in the U.S. In 1846, Pennsylvania Whig congressman David Wilmot proposed the ______, in which slavery would be ______in any land won from Mexico. As a result, the proposal broke parties up with support dividing along sectional lines. The ______-______Act allowed people to vote on whether or not to allow ______in those territories. When Northerners & Southerners flooded the state to tip the vote, civil war broke out. More than ______people died. Both of these failed policies became issues on which the ______Party would be founded. Cornell Notes Guided Notes – “The Gold Rush” Glue onto Page: ______The Gold Rush ______was a Swiss immigrant to California in 1839 who owned 1000’s of acres, cattle, and had many people working for him. In late 1847 Sutter hired ______to build a saw mill on the ______to provide lumber for Sutter’s growing ranch. On January 24, ______with the sawmill almost finished Marshall looked down into the water and discovered ______. News of the discovery was not spread by Sutter or Marshall, but by San Francisco merchant ______. News quickly spread and was published in every ______coast newspaper. By 1849 the country was gripped in ______“______.” Farmers left their fields, merchants closed their shops, soldiers left their posts – all made plans to go to ______.</p><p>The California Gold Rush was a mass migration of people from the ______U.S. and around the ______looking for easy riches. Called ______-______, the gold seekers swelled the population of California from ______in 1847 to ______in five years. Conditions were hard in the mining camps – no ______, no ______, and prices for food and supplies were very high. Cholera and dysentery were rampant. As a result, towns that started were accurately named (______, Gouge Eye, Rough and Ready, ______). Only a few miners got rich – ______and service people got rich supplying the ______. More than half of the forty-niners came to California by ______through San Francisco – miners needed supplies, and San Francisco was where they were bought. The Gold Rush upset the delicate balance between ______and ______states – everyone was affected, and no one was spared from its effects:  American miners forced out ______and ______miners to reduce ______, and the legislature levied a $20/month “foreign miners” tax to discourage miners from other countries.  Discouraged ______miners moved to San Francisco and formed ______.  Native Americans either died from European ______or were hunted down by the miners – their population declined from ______in 1860 to 58,000 in ______.  ______(Mexican Californians) including ______, lost their lands.  When California applied for statehood as a ______state, the Union was comprised of ______free and ______slave states. The admission of California in 1850 intensified the debate over slavery.</p>