Transcript Guided Reading Activity 12-4

Guided Reading Activity
12-4
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1. nearly 100,000
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2. people who came to California in search
of gold in 1849
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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
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5. San Francisco
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6. along a 150-mile stretch of the western slope
of the Sierra Nevada Mts.
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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
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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.
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11. It soared from 20,000 in 1848 to more than
220,000 only four years later
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12. California’s 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
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14. Joseph Smith; Brigham Young
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15. It was the largest single migration in
American history
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16. Deseret