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Junipero Serra and Gaspar de Portola discovered Alta California.
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The Indians got revenge on the priest that made them work and seperated their family.
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Mexico won it's independence on 1821.
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Jedidiah Smith led American trappers through Mojave and Utah desert.
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The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse.
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James Marshall discovered gold while building Sutter's Mill.
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After the gold rush, the country decided to make California a state due to its big population and madness.
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John Butterfield started the first transcontinental mail service.
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People from the midwest moved to California hoping for a better life.
