History of the United States . tted an increase in thesize of the letter and reduced the postage to five and ten cents, according todistance east of the Rocky Mountains. To the Pacific territories the smallestpostage by way of the Isthmus of Panama was 40 cents. Imagine how peoplein the early days economized space on letter paper! 4. In 1846 and 1848 Iowa and Wisconsin were admitted into the Union,politically offsetting Florida and Texas. insistent and was voiced in the cry, Fifty-four forty or fight, referring tothat parallel of latitude as the proposed dividing line. After a great deal ofdis
History of the United States . tted an increase in thesize of the letter and reduced the postage to five and ten cents, according todistance east of the Rocky Mountains. To the Pacific territories the smallestpostage by way of the Isthmus of Panama was 40 cents. Imagine how peoplein the early days economized space on letter paper! 4. In 1846 and 1848 Iowa and Wisconsin were admitted into the Union,politically offsetting Florida and Texas. insistent and was voiced in the cry, Fifty-four forty or fight, referring tothat parallel of latitude as the proposed dividing line. After a great deal ofdiscussion based on this extreme claim and the alleged concessions underprevious administrations. President Polk and Congress agreed to accept theforty-ninth parallel as the continuous northern boundary of the United Statesfrom the Rocky Mountains to the middle of the channel which separates theisland of Vancouver from the continent. From thence the line was deflectedto include the whole of Vancouver in the British possessions. 1. CHAPTER XXV Administrations of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore,1849-1853: Gold Found in California 180. The California Gold Rush, 1849.—Before the electionof Taylor, and a few days before the signing of the treaty withMexico, gold had been discovered in California. As soon as thisbecame known in the east, a great rush set in for the Pacific 1849 a constant stream of emi-grants covered all available routes to the pioneers endured incredible hardshipson the way, many of them perished, but thou-sands pressed on to final success. Before theend of the year, small settlements like Sacra-mento and San Francisco grew into cities offrom ten to twenty thousand pioneer hfe was rough at best, and theprospect of sudden riches had attracted a law- zachary taylor^less element which at first terrorized the new sepr24^i7S4.^°RaSdcommunity; but it was not long before the ^e^rtecf 5rn1)itS^better citizens gained control an
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