Guided Reading Activity 12-4

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Guided Reading Activity 12-4
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• 1. nearly 100,000
• 2. people who came to California in search of
  gold in 1849
• 3. About half were Americans others came from
  Mexico, South America, Europe, and Australia
  300 men cam from China

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• 4. boomtowns
• 5. San Francisco
• 6. along a 150-mile stretch of the western slope
  of the Sierra Nevada Mts.
• 7. merchants who sold goods to the miners

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• 8. They were lonely places with little to do but
  drink, gamble, and fight. The camps lacked law
  and order. Murders and robberies were frequent
• 9. committees of concerned citizens who took the
  law into their own hands, acting as police,
  judge, jury and executioner

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• 10. Agriculture, shipping, and trade expanded to
  meet the miners needs for food and other goods.
• 11. It soared from 20,000 in 1848 to more than
  220,000 only four years later
• 12. Californias constitution banned slavery.
  Southern states objected to making it a state
  because it would upset the balance of free and
  slave states.

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• 13. to fulfill their vision of an ideal society
• 14. Joseph Smith Brigham Young
• 15. It was the largest single migration in
  American history
• 16. Deseret