HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Gold Rush, United States House Committee On The Judiciary
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Reasons for moving west: economic- cheap land and resources, religious- persecution or missions, forced- indian removal and slavery. 2/3 of a wagon train died of cholera (causes dehydration, lack of appetite, and dysentery: most people"s shoes wore out along the way and they crossed it barefoot, timeline: People started crossing in 1836 (like marcus and narcissa whitman) John c. freemont finished mapping the trail in 1844. Transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 so people stopped walking the trail. Texas/tejas: transcontinental treaty (1819): us gave up californian and texan land but settlers still went, mexico invited americans to settle texas to create a buffer zone of protection from the us and possible invasion. Tejanos (texas natives) felt ignored by the mexican government and disliked the anglos (americans who brought their slaves) because they took land from them and the government gave them land. Americans never intended to become mexican because many thought the.
