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The sailing ship Brooklyn, carrying 246 Mormon settlers, arrived in San Francisco. At this time it was a tiny Mexican village known as Yerba Buena.
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The California bear flag was born! This one, however, was not the original. The original one was destroyed because of the Great Earthquake in 1906.
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Gold was discovered by James W. Marshall on Jan.24,1848. Thousands of people came to California because they heard there was gold.
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The treaty that ended the Mexican American war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, was signed! California officially became a part of US territory.
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The California News paper in San Francisco reports for the first time on the gold discovery in the Sierra. However, most San Franciscans remain skeptical of the report
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The New York Herald reports that the discovery of gold in California has "set the public mind almost on the highway to insanity".
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Targeted by the Foreign Miners Tax and subject to violence and intimidation at the hands of Anglos, an estimated 15,000 Mexican miners fled the gold region.
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California becomes a state! It was the 31st offical state in the USA.
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Sacramento became California's capital in 1854. The first railroad connected to Sacramento as well.
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The Abolishment of Slavery happened on December 6th, 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution was ratified, officially abolishing slavery!
