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California's Civil War Claims


The little-known story of how slavery infiltrated California and the ...

Perhaps as many as 1,500 enslaved African Americans were forcibly transported to California between 1849 and 1861. Hundreds arrived before the ...

Surprising things about California's Statehood

The following month, Mexico and the U.S. signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War and yielding 525,000 square miles of ...

Spanish California | Articles and Essays | Library of Congress

Not until the Seven Years War ... The earliest of these were associated with the missions and presidios, but in 1777 an independent civil pueblo was created at ...

Alex Garland says that Texas and California are allies in 'CIVIL WAR ...

Alex Garland says that Texas and California are allies in 'CIVIL WAR' due to a necessary response to an oppressive overreach by the government ...

Civil Rights for African Americans in Early California

However, it would take a Civil War, amendments to the United. States Constitution, and a new California Constitution in 1879 to end enslavement and provide ...

California's first troops to fight in Civil War weren't Californians | LAist

The U.S. is marking the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Nearly 17000 Californians fought for the Union Army, ...

Everything you need to know about California's reparations report

Two years after a statewide task force set out to determine how much Black Californians are owed for slavery, racism and discriminatory ...

Reading Between the Lines with a Rare Civil War-Related Letter ...

This was because southern California was truly Southern as sympathy for the Confederate cause was so strong that the government in Washington ...

Idaho, California and a Second American Civil War

While political and legal matters may result in violence, such incidents are more likely to occur in urban areas rather than in Idaho and ...

WI: The Pico Act passes, California is split during the Civil War

The summery is that before the American Civil war a bill to divide most of Southern California into the new "Territory of Colorado" almost ...

California and the Civil War Sesquicentennial - We're History

Although few people associate the Golden State with the Civil War, in fact, during the war years California was transformed in a multitude ...

CA is the first state to tackle Black reparations. Here's why - CalMatters

... Civil War, to assist formerly enslaved people. The new agency would help California residents trace their lineage. Kamilah Moore ...

Millard Fillmore | The White House

Millard Fillmore · 1. Admit California as a free state. · 2. Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her. · 3. Grant territorial status to New Mexico. · 4. Place ...

Library Digitizes Civil War Diaries from Valley Family - Newsroom

Staff at Villanova uncovered a claim ... Steve Nagy was able to track down Nightingale's descendants in California and learned that they had the ...

How the Bay Area helped the Union win the Civil War

Fearing the West Coast was vulnerable to a rebel invasion or a secessionist revolt, the U.S. secretary of war sent telegrams to California's ...

Banished: Last Confederate monument in Southern California

Its text of raised-bronze letters spells out Davis' respectable pre-Civil War government job for the United States — “Secretary of War in 1853” ...

The California militia ready for civil war - UnHerd

One local stands up and claims she had seen buses run by the San Francisco government dropping scores of homeless people in Redding at night.

War claims of California, Oregon, and Nevada.

WAR CLAIMS OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON, AND NEV ADA. favorably reported by the Senate Committee on Military Affairs in. Senate Report No. 158, as follows, to wit ...

Civil War in Visalia | C-SPAN.org

THE EFFECTS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR WERE FAR-REACHING. AS THE TOWN OF VISALIA, CALIFORNIA WAS OVER 2100 MILES AWAY FROM THE CONFLICT, TENSIONS ...

If Every U.S. State Declared War Against the Others, Which Would ...

There was no Texas, nor California, and certainly no America. Now everyone was simply a survivor of the Second American Civil War. In the chaos ...


Frederick H. Billings

American lawyer and financier

Frederick H. Billings was an American lawyer, financier, and politician. He is known for his legal work on land claims during the early years of California's statehood and his presidency of the Northern Pacific Railway from 1879 to 1881.