Life in the 1850's In 1850, Scandinavian gold miners in California formed the first ski clubs in the United States. On June 2nd, a series of fires destroyed several million dollars worth of property in San Francisco. In 1851, Cornelius Vanderbilt established a steam ship route from New York to California. In 1852, Congress established the Oregon territory. A year later, a San Francisco club introduced the Irish sport of hurling into the United States. That same year
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The Dawes General Allotment Act was made to create the great symbol of the United States just hours after the Declaration of Independence was written. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson began preparing to a one of a kind, national seal. The seal went through three stages of designs in early 1782 before the fourth was chosen in 1782. A second and third committee made designs for the seal along with Charles Thompson. The first three designs played a part in the fourth design that combined