1849                 Documents in Year 1850                      1851


Links of Interest:

  • Zachary Taylor, Twelfth U.S. President

  • (1849-1850)
    After participating in ceremonies at the Washington Monument on a blistering July 4, Taylor fell ill; within five days he was dead.

  • Millard Fillmore, Thirteenth U.S. President

  • (1850-1853)
    President Millard Fillmore, first President to have a stove in the White House and a bathtub with running water.

  • U.S. Census Overview 1850

  • U.S. Census Fast Facts 1850

  • Statehood

    California (31 of 50 States) Admitted 9 Sept 1850


  • "Gold Rush: The Discovery of America"

  • and

    Gold Fever

    Population in San Francisco: 7,000. City of Sacramento being developed. Group of 20-30 men built a dam to divert the American River in order to get to the gold in the river beds because most of the gold had been picked out of the rivers by individual gold miners panning for gold. The gold rush lured many Americans west to California. There were over 100,000 residents within a year enough for statehood.

  • Native Americans:

  • Cholera epidemic among Great Basin Indians (west)
    Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

  • North American Population:

  • Native Americans (Indians) = 770,000
    Europeans = 23 million

    Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

    see 1900 next

  • Technology/Transportation:

  • National Road to Vandalia, Illinois.

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