When the Civil War broke out, Albert Sidney Johnston was commanding federal troops in this state and declined to lead a conspiracy for it to secede. This state was home to violent labor leader Dennis Kearney, whose nativism inspired the Alien Land Ac
When the Civil War broke out, Albert Sidney Johnston was commanding federal troops in this state and declined to lead a conspiracy for it to secede. This state was home to violent labor leader Dennis Kearney, whose nativism inspired the Alien Land Act and an ordinance later overturned in Yick Wo v. Hopkins. One of this state's first two senators, nicknamed the Pathfinder, was the first Republican nominee for president, John C. Fremont. Once home to the Bear Flag Republic, this is, FTP, what state that saw a famous gold rush starting in 1848?
When the Civil War broke out, Albert Sidney Johnston was commanding federal troops in this state and declined to lead a conspiracy for it to secede.
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