Respuestas al mensaje #8

They didn't have to officially "pick" a side because they remained a territory of the United States (i.e. the Union). There were some confederate...

California sided fully with the Union. Gold, and Silver helped fund the war effort, and California, despite being mostly under the Mason-Dixon...

Possibly if you were Chinese or Mexican. Peonage was still going on there as late as the War of 1847. After the first transcontinental telegraph...