American Civil War · TURNING POINT ·
California Gold Rush (1848)
On the American Civil War map as “Gold at Coloma”
24 Jan 1848 — James Marshall finds gold in the channel below Sutter’s sawmill, nine days before the peace treaty is signed. California’s non-Native population climbs from about 14,000 to about 100,000 by the end of 1849, and its convention bans slavery that autumn.
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- Mexican–American War (chapter 1 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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