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Chapter 6 Lesson 3: California Becomes a State

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okay welcome first graders to another voicethread we are competing are discussing about California in it Play We are on Chapter 6 Lesson 3 I'm on page 246 and 247 California become a date okay going on here in April California California was controlled by military officials you really cared about this whole lot they didn't argue against it but After The Goldrush one hole when the a lot more people started to come to California a lot of the newcomers wanted the same rights as citizens of the United States did at this time the United States Congress was busy dealing with conflict over slavery weather in states of the United States were free states and the states in the southern part of the United States were play with dealing with that issue that they did not have the time to take up the issue of whether California to be a part of the United States instead of just being run by these military officials call this gentleman a general Bennett Riley the new military governor of California Monterey California Galaga is a person who is chosen to speak on behalf of somebody else go and look at the next picture here this doesn't really go with what we're going to be discussing here so I guess I'll just go back  a constitution for cat California I'm on page 248 okay so this meeting was that to happen The Californians elected 48 delegates will it send this convention Bay it's included both new immigrants and old ones as well as California Mariano Vallejo been living in California since he was one of the eight Californios what did to the convention the delegates quickly decided that California to become a funny but sad Upstate California was going to be or what lands California was going to occupy the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo California's Southern border with Mexico the Pacific Ocean set the western boundary of California and then the northern border was The Oregon Territory what would be the eastern border of California include all of the land in the United States New Mexico delegates decided against this they thought the area would be too large to cover they decided this Easter what boundary of California should be marked by this Sierra Nevada and the Colorado River another decision that the delegates had to think what was weather California going to be a slave or a free state in enslaved people were allowed who plays in free dates they were not all of the delegates voted that California should be a free state how to figure out what kind of education system California was going to have the creation of a state public school this is a picture of the first graduating class of the first High School in stand Cisco in this was an 1859 are continuing on all of these delegate concluded or thought about an agreed-upon into a constitution or plan of government the delegates wrote the Constitution of 1849 California rights and freedom for the first time California citizens would have the have a voice in their own government they can vote for their leaders such as governor and member and members of the state legislature the legislature is a group of officials Galactic to make laws so now the people could vote for delegates and these people would make decisions sample the governor and members of the legislature in November of 1849 at the people of California voted to ratify or approve the new constitution California Senator were sent to Washington DC Washington DC to approach Congress California becoming a state this request debate in Congress because there were a number of slave and free states so when California became in the 30 it would make it in Balance because California wanted to be a free state so there would be more free slave states and that's kind of created a major conflict The South was slave the north was free finally play some Congress worked out a compromise people on each side of the argument agree to give up something under the compromise of Victory they passed a law called The Fugitive Slave Act that said anyone who is caught helping an escaped slave would be punish California officially became a state on September 9th 1850 couple things that they have to about now that they had become a state they had to figure out where they were going to have their capital in Monterey then it got moved San Jose was moved to Vallejo and finally ended in Sacramento what what they were going to do with taxes because there were so many minors in California that did not own land they could not collect property tax that wouldn't work also banks in the United States did not want to loan money to California so are there was definitely some difficulty there and how are they ever going to figure out taxes  okay go ahead and move on here now the end of Ranchos remember Ranchos were these large where they raised animal these large estate Brockton built right next to the presidio's and the mission and it was one of the ways Spain kind of controlled or occupied their land now yours the end of the Ranchos Davis wait Facebook is trouble over land ownership people who stayed in California after the Gold Rush lived on unmarked land that were part of Ranchos quesadilla lived in these areas that were unmarked this led to arguments over phone land to settle this dispute the United States Congress pass The Land Act law Pharaoh's Rancho owners had to prove that the land belongs to them now this is hard for a lot of the Rancheros to do did not speak English and few government officials spoke Spanish it was also difficult for the Rancher Rancheros to prove that they received their land grants from Liberty their land grants legally since they got many of their land grants from Max in addition to hand drawn Windows those were those hand-drawn maps of what the land was going to look like we're off not crap here is some vocabulary that you are going to need to know a convention is a large important me a delegate is a person chosen to speak and act for the people who elected him or her Constitution is a plan of government question from this one is on page 247 how did the feelings of Californians about the military rule change with Gold Rush why did they want something new after the Gold Rush military rule question number 2 is on page 249 it is California's new government different from its government of the past question question feel free to leave any other questions or comments for either myself or your other classmates to answer and I look forward to seeing you in class hope you enjoy this voice read

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