39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850

History That Doesn't Suck

ProfGregJackson

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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“The Union is doomed to dissolution. … I fix its probable occurrence within twelve years or three presidential terms.” This is the story of statehood and compromise. California is booming. The gold rush is in full swing with Americans and immigrants from all over the world hoping to make their fortune. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Nature and the miners show their violent sides. With such a flood of Americans in California, it also means statehood is needed. But will it be a slave state? Or a free state? Congress and the nation are up in arms as slavers and freedom fighters each push to get their way. Their fighting threatens the very existence of the Union. Will it die? Or can they compromise? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.3	Welcome to History that doesn't suck.
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1:13.8	Sacramento's population has exploded this past year.
1:17.8	In early 1849, this simple settlement at the confluence of Northern California Sacramento
1:23.4	and American rivers consisted of four houses and a few dozen people.
1:27.7	Now it's winter, 1849, and that few dozen has become 10,000.
1:33.7	Migrants are arriving in droves, and November's heavy rains are pushing local miners, particularly
1:39.0	the wise old-timers, to seek refuge in the quickly forming city.
1:43.7	They know this kind of precipitation can make the rivers dangerous, so they plan to pass
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