Final california

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Kevin Starr

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Kevin Starr

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• “California itself, according to Montalvo, was an ‘island on the rght hand of the Indies…Very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise.’- abounding in in gold and precious stones.”

• Queen Calafia sailed to Constantinpole to join captains of the world in seige against the Turks.

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• 1533 party of Spanish explorers sailing against west from Mexico an command of Hernan Cortes landed on what they believed to be the recently discovered Pacific.

• California was a peninsula, not and island, and faces the Pacific Ocean latitude 42 degrees N and latitude 32 degrees N

Queen Calafia’s Island

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• Native Americans of California belonged to 22 linguistic families and within those families were 135 separate languages.

• “After 25 generations, the first Californians would soon be encountering social forces , diseases, and genocidal violence that would them to the brink of extinction.”

Queen Calafia’s Island

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• The public works infrastructure of California was established in the next 40 years.

• Dams, aqueducts, reservoirs, power plants, industrial sites, etc. served the growing population.

• 1878 legislature passed the Drainage Act and allowed $100,000 for irrigation, drainage, and navigation studies.

Great Expectations

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• Technology developed in the Gold Rush for moving water across land led to technology of irrigation. Eventually would enlarge and stabalize metropolitan infrastructure in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

• Took more than six years to construct LA aqueduct.

• 1910 California reached 2.3 million in population growth. Decades from 1900-30 there was an overnight creation of metropolitan LA, San Francisco, and Southern California as new America.

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• Newcomers in Southern California were primarily white.

• 1920-30 Mexican American were dominant in Los Angeles, as wells as a small population of African Americans.

• By 1929, Sothern California had emerged into a “fully materialized American place.”

• Mid 1029s approximately 50,000 cmmuters were entering and leaving the San Francisco Bay Area everyday. This made the San Francisco Ferry Building the busiest terminal in the world.

• 1853 San Franciscans talked about bulding a bridge that would link their city to the Oakland on the East Bay Shore.

• Budget for bridge reached $77.2 million, which made it one of the most expensive public works in American history.

Great Expectations

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• 1930s the Great Depression emerged.

• The Gold Rush was “an epic of personal labor in which men of every social background sought their fortunes through the work of their hands.”

• Since labor for hire was scarce in cities and towns (most preferred to be in the mines) workers of California organized themselves immediately.

Making it Happen

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• California developed as an agriculture state. But with these great fields, it required an intense seasonal labor force. 1880s-90s men would bunk out and work in the fields all day.

• Eventually the labor force wanted to improve their working conditions.

• This movement was eventually termed The General Strike of 1901 and led to the formation of Union Labor Party in San Francisco.

Making it Happen

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• 1912 San Diego found itself in bitter dock strike by the Industrial Workers of the World.

• Violence among all these movements became a common theme.

• “April 30, 1919 the Criminal Syndicalism Act passed that declared it a felony, punishable by 1-14 years in prison, to advocate or in any other way to promulgate violence as a means of ‘accomplishing a change in industrial ownership or control or effecting and political changes.’”

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