Multiple Subject: History and Social Science California History

Many people believe this was once a land bridge connecting Russia and Alaska; the first Americans used this to settle in North America

Spoke a great diversity of dialects. Largest concentration of Indians in North America. Similar physical traits and features. Primarily hunter/gatherer societies. Subsistence was based almost exclusively on availble resources.

About 15,000 years ago

Rugged topography: . mountains . deserts

Yes. It's the topography thing again.

Difficult--topography

Regional relations between groups were limited b/c travel was difficult

Late Pleistocene or Early Ice Age 20,000 to 30,000 years ago

Yes. Evidence from the archaeological site at Calico could push the date to 50,000.

Diverse set of dialects Remember the were isolated by the topography

Large number: . Estimated: 150,000 - 300,000

North: frame & plank Southern desert: brush shelters Coast: earthen mounds

No.

No. bow and arrow, obsidian points hunting blades, spears, harpoons, clubs, and throwing sticks

Acorns . Oak trees were plentiful

. dry . store . crack . leach before eating

South: balsa & raft-type boats North: plank canoes

Paternal side

jimsonweed Native tobacco

Men only

* Shamanism * Influence of nature

The single person who takes on the roles of priest, counselor, and physician and acts as a conduit to the supernatural world in a shamanist culture.

True

* Birth * Death * Puberty * Marriage * Hunting

Regional animals and natural phenomena: . coyote . raven . bear . snake . thunder

Men: hunt, fish Women: gather food & materials, killed small game

Yes, by all California Indians

1. Yurok 2. Hupa 3. Modoc 4. Pomo

1. Maidu 2. Miwok

1. Coastal Miwok 2. Esselen 3. Chumash

1. Mojave 2. Serrano

1. Miwok 2. Mono

1. Subsistence agricultural implements 2. Receptacles 3. Musical instruments 4. Money

* Mortar & pestle * Metate * Grinding slab * Digging stick

* Baskets--most famous * Pottery * Wood * Stone bowls

* Drum * Rattle * Flute * Rasp * Bow

* Clam disks and Olivella shells

Christopher Columbus convinced the King of Spain to sponsor his voyage to Asia by the Atlantic Ocean, and thus found the Americas. The Spanish took control of the Indians and began converting them to Catholicism. Soon, the Spanish slave trade started. Disease and malnutrition decimated the Indian population.

The place were mythical North American towns supposedly so wealthy that streets were paved with gold.with Amazon like women who used golden weapons.

Spain focussed on richer parts of empire in . Mexico . Peru . Phillipines

In 1530s Cortes was in search of Seven Cities of Cibola

Conquest & Wealth

1. San Diego Bay 2. Santa Barbara Islands 3. Point Conception 4. Point Reyes

A water passage between the Pacific and Atlantic

English explorer/pirate who circumnavigated the globe from 1577 to 1580 and was sent by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish ships/settlements for gold

Drake's claim in 1579 and the threat by England

Monterey and San Francisco

Not so much for the next 100 years

Renewed Spain's interest in colonizing California

Fur

Ivan Kuskov and a group of fur trapper built this fort near San Francisco., a trading post, near Bodega Bay, built by Russians in 1812. It was a base for sea otter hunters. they sold tools in exchange for salt, wheat, and other foods

Pushed southward

American government

Monroe Doctrine

Restricted European colonization of the Americas

Established presidios & pueblos in valleys around San Francisco Bay

Military fort

Small settlement

Baja in the early 1700's

Franciscan Friars

1823

San Diego

Sonoma

One day's journey

1. Convert Indians to Christianity 2. Establish cultural & agricultural centers 3. Populate Alta California for Spain

"Both the sword and the cross were used to subdue the Indians"

Father Serra

The Spanish missionary who founded 21 missions in California, in 1769, he founded Mission San Diego, the first of the chain.

Serra's contributions are controversial

The mission system began a secularization process

Most mission property was privately owned

1. Create permanent, self-sufficient Spanish settlements 2. Defend Spanish empire in Mexico 3. Convert indigenous people

1. Locate in areas w/high concentration native population 2. All buildings built with materials on hand 3. Each mission cultivated food

* Cereal Grains * Grapes * Fruit * Olives * Livestock

1. Provided presidios w/food & goods 2. Some enjoyed great economic success 3. Gave Spanish a foothold in California

1. Fatally exposed Indians to European diseases 2. Destroyed native culture 3. Exploited indigenous labor force

The Spanish, and later the Méxican government encouraged settlement of territory now known as California by the establishment of large land grants called ranchos. Devoted to raising cattle and sheep, the owners of the ranchos attempted to pattern themselves after the landed gentry of Spain. Their workers included Californian Native Americans who had learned to speak Spanish, many of them former Mission residents. The ranchos established land-use patterns that are recognizable in the California of today.

Owned by Californios, huge properties in California worked by Native Americanss in return for food, shelter

Mountain man, trapper, and trader known for exploring the Rockies. He opened up the west with his discovery of the South Pass, which was wider and less steep than previous passes and which allowed wagon trails to run through it.

United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the Civil War (1809-1868), an American frontiersman. He gained notoriety for his role as John C. Fremont's guide in the American West.

Commissioned by the Senate to document and survey the west. His descriptions were to make the West look as nice as possible. His famous stories glorified the West and all the abundance of land and possible wealth, , Dashing explorer/adventurer who led the overthrow of Mexican rule in California after war broke out

The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas. Mexico claimed ownership of Texas as a breakaway province and refused to recognize the secession and subsequent military victory by Texas in 1836.

A short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. The Americans issued a declaration of independence and hoisted a flag, white with a grizzly bear facing a red star. The innsurectionists elected Frémont to head the "Republic of California." The Republic was quick to fall. Commandor Sloat claimed California for the United States, and replaced the bear flag with the American flag.

Ended the War with Mexico and included the Mexican Cession transfer of California and the future states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah to U.S. control.

One of Sutter's employees; detected flakes of heavy yellow metal at the botton of a wooden canal used to divert water from the American River

John Sutter was an immigrant that settled in California. He started a settlement called New Helvetia. he built a fort on land that the governer gave him, and people who crossed the Sierra Nevada sometimes ended up here.

An immigrant who was instrumental in the early settlement of Califonria by Americans, he had originally obtained his lands in Northern California through a Mexican grant. Gold was discovered by workmen excavating to build a sawmill on his land in the Sacramento Valley in 1848, touching off the California gold rush.

The rush to secure gold, especially alluvial gold, in order to acquire immediate riches and the associated social status. New flood into Golden state, soon apply to become free state, tip the balance, set off sectional debate on slavery

Compromise that made . . . 1. California admitted as a free state 2. Fugitive Slave Law 3. Slave Trade banned in Washington 4.Popular Sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah

Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west. Chinese on the Cental Pacific and Irish on the Union Pacific.

The Big Four was the name popularly given to the chief entrepreneurs in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.However, the four of them preferred to be known as "The Associates". Controlled the railroad industry and California Politics

During the California economic depression of the 1870s, the collapse of this further weakened the California economy.

Law passed in 1882 that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country, but did not prevent entry of those who had previously established U.S. residence

Anti-Chinese sentiment only increased when the completion of the transcontinental railroad freed up 9,000 Chinese laborers, fueling the hostility of American workers who, like the miners before them, resented Chinese immigrants for the economic competition they presented and blamed them for the bad economy.

Chinese immigrants began arriving in America in significant numbers in the 1850s, most from the southern provinces of China where war, persecution and famine caused the deaths of millions. American businessmen actively sought Chinese laborers in mines and other industries, using them to provide much of the labor for building the transcontinental railroads. While the Chinese were first praised as diligent workers, praise later turned to hostility as the railroad was completed and competition for other jobs increased. Anti-Chinese political activity and violence erupted between 1880-1900 throughout the West, resulting in scores of deaths.

Nativist, Anti-Chinese, and anti Big Business.

The railroads ended the region's isolation. The railroad made transportation cheaper and easier, causing a land boom in the 1880s. During the "Boom of the 80s," thousands of farmers and opportunity seekers moved to southern California.

A supposed threat to the US posed by Japan and China. Fear of asian immigration and Japan's rising military power.

a coalition party pushed through reforms and controlled the Republican Party.

Progressive governor of California who broke the stranglehold of the Southern Pacific Railroad on the state's politics

Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters

The name given to the political process in which the general public votes on an issue of public concern.

Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.

A full-time, three-member paid commission elected by the people to regulate oil and gas and some transportation entities

prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases over it, but permitted leases lasting up to three years. It affected the Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean immigrant farmers in California.

Buit to make passage between Atlantic and Pacific oceans easier and faster because there were many Navy ships that needed to get from Gulf of Mexico out to the Pacific to help protect American islands in case of invasion; built by Roosevelt

Wages, production, manufactureing and commerce expanded rapidly. Real Estate Boom. Movies, oil and Agriculture thrived.

Muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago.

A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society

proposed placing $200 of government funds per month in the hands of people aged 60 and older, with the requirements that the recipients be retired and spend the money within 30 days

Manufacturing base was greatly increased by airplanes ships and other war products. California became the defense center of the nation.

The forcible relocation of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor because they were perceived to be a threat to national safety.

The first of a series of racial disorders that hit cities throughout the United States in the summers of 1965-1967. they usually began with an arrest or a police raid that was followed by rumors of resistance and police brutality

Latino leader from 1962-1993 who organized the United Farm Workers to help migratory farm workers get better pay and working conditions

A labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by Filipino organizer Larry Itliong, and the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez.

Californians staged a "tax revolt" that slashed property taxes and forced painful cuts in government services

A region of western California southeast of San Francisco known for its high-tech design and manufacturing industries

The highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)

Drastic changes in topography across the state: rugged mountain peaks, fertile valleys, dense forests, ocean boundaries, and extensive deserts

Evidences faulting, folding, alluvial and sedimentary deposition, and volcanic activity

This is the name for a famous transform boundary in California.

-Southern California's climate characterized as Mediterranean and is unique in the United States -The state has many diverse microclimates, though generally the coastal climate is mild and the interior is much more extreme -The interior basins have the most extreme temperatures

-There are mountain ranges along the western coast of California, extending from the Klamath Mountains in the north (Oregon border region) to the southwestern section of the Sierra Nevada (Southern California) -The San Andreas Fault system divides this region along a north/south axis -The range is approx. 550 miles long -The plant diversity ranges from giant redwoods in the north to chaparral in the south -The mountains are a series of parallel ranges formed by sedimentary deposition uplifted by faulting and folding -The climate of the Coast Ranges varies from low-pressure areas that produce fog and rain in the northern sections to a Mediterranean-type condition in the south

-Located in the northwestern corner of the states -They are an extension of the Coast Ranges -The mountains are rugged, steep, and in the 6,000- to 8,000-foot range -The area receives heavy precipitation, and dense forests cover the mountains

The name of the mountain range that seperates California and Nevada. The snowy range. The highest mountains in California. Gold was discovered in the streams. Southern Cali is dependent on the rain from here. Rain shadow effect.

-Separates the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range -Extends from the northwest to the southeast for 400 miles and is an average of 50 miles wide -The valley is a flat, sedimentary plain. The soil is fertile and makes the valley the major agricultural region of the state. -60% of California's farmland is located in the Central Valley -A majority of the state;s water supply is caught in the Central Valley as runoff from the Sierra Nevada -The Sacramento Delta, encompassing 1,200 square miles of waterways, is located where the Sacramento (south-flowing) and San Joaquin (north-flowing) rivers meet

-This extreme landscape of short, parallel mountain ranges and desert basins extends along the eastern border of California ---The northern section is part of a lava plateau ---The southern section is generally dry. The Mojave Desert is the major geographical feature in the south. -The Northwest and Southwest Great Basin, the Northwestern Sonoran Desert, and the Salton Sea Trough are significant areas in this region -Death Valley (in the Mojave Desert), the lowest point in the U.S., was formed by faulting (not erosion) -The system extends in to Nevada and Utah -Irrigation with water from the Colorado River has allowed large-scale farming in the Imperial and Coachella valleys

-Form the western mountain ranges -The western slope of the Sierra Nevada borders the Central Valley of California -The Coast Ranges form the western wall of the Central Valley

-The southern extreme of the Cascade Range is located in the northeastern corner of California. It extends 550 miles northward into Canada. -The area is separate from the Sierra Nevada and is about 25 miles wide -The Cascade Range mountains were formed exclusively by volcanic activity. Many, like Mt. Shasta (14,162 feet), are dormant or extinct volcanoes -Lassen Peak is the largest plug-dome (filled with magma) volcano in the world -The Modoc Plateau is a level tableland of volcanic origin

is the largest plug dome (filled with magma) volcano in the world.

-This area extends from Santa Barbara to San Diego -The Transverse/Los Angeles ranges extend in an easterly (transverse) direction from the coast. (All other California ranges extend north and south.) -These ranges include the Santa Ynez, Santa Monica, San Gabriel, and San Bernadino mountains -The Los Angeles Basin is the state's largest coastal basin and was formed by the alluvial deposition of soil from the surrounding mountain ranges -The Penninsular ranges extend south from the San Bernadino Mountains in Baja California and from the Pacific Ocean east to the Salton Sea Trough -The faulted eastern sections of the Peninsular ranges are characterized by sharp drop-offs. It is a complex region of active fault zones. Significant faults include the San Jacinto (near Palm Springs) and the Elsinore.