![]() ![]() ![]() In 1848, only those who lived in the California area responded to the cry. He took a quinine bottle full of gold dust and ran through the streets of the small town of San Francisco screaming, ‘Gold! Gold! From the American River!’ He also wrote an article on the subject in his own newspaper, the ‘California Star.’ In April 1848, Brennan, bought as many supplies as he could to stock his stores. Brennan used the hysteria surrounding the gold discovery to increase his personal fortune by raising prices on common goods. The secret of the gold discovery became public knowledge and reached an opportunistic Mormon shopkeeper named Samuel Brennan. He also feared that his farm would be ruined by prospectors looking for riches. He knew that he did not have a solid claim on the land where the gold was found. Once Marshall told his partner of his discovery, Sutter tried to keep it a secret. He hoped to regain his fortune by farming. Sutter left Europe due to bankruptcy, and came to California in 1839 after getting a land grant for 48,000 acres from Mexico. The mill was located fifty miles from the land owned by his Swiss-German partner, John Augustus Sutter. He was checking the operation of a sawmill near present-day Coloma, California, located on the American River. California became an American territory in 1850.Gold!Soon after the war, on January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold in California. Both countries signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War and forced Mexico to hand over to the United States the area of New Mexico and California. After several battles, Mexican General Antonio Lopez Santa Anna surrendered the disputed Mexican territories over to the U.S. Zachary Taylor and later, Winfield Scott, lead the American armies against the Mexican enemy. to take the land away and declared war against the United States. The Mexican government refused to allow the U.S. In the midst of these failed negotiations, American surveyor James Charles Fremont began the Bear Flag Rebellion, which declared Californian independence from Mexico. Other European countries eyed the lands of California for their own expansion. He offered Mexico $40 million for the territory, but his offer was flatly rejected. President James Polk sought to increase the size of the United States by annexing the West Coast of the continent. In 1846, soon after the war for Texas Independence was won by General Sam Houston and his army, U.S. It did not remain a Mexican possession for long. The state of California belonged to the Spanish in the 1600’s, and it was lost when Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821. ![]()
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