Why was there such a rush to annex California in the late 1840s? Gold had been discovered near San Francisco. The US wanted to seize the railroads in California. The US wanted to encourage settlement in California to alleviate overcrowding in eastern cities. Southerners pushed for annexation because California would give slave states an advantage in the Senate.
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