1. California Jacqueline Mougel

2. Chapter 7 1890s: dams, aqueducts, reservoir, power plants industrial sites, brides, road ways, public buildings, & stations 2/3 annual precipitation falls in northern third of state Sacramento & San Joaquin (rivers) Drainage Act: $100,000 for irrigation, drainage, navigation studies William Hammond (state engineer)

3. Chapter 7 Lux v. Haggin (1877) Henry Miller & Charles Lux against Kern Country Land & Water Company regarding the right to draw flowing river water upstream from another’s property Agreement: allowed each side to draw water at stated intervals Colorado River -gravity canal flows into Imperial Valley 1900- 40% of 1.5 million lived in Bay Area or Los Angeles

4. Chapter 7 Los Angeles Aqueduct: 6 years, 235miles= O’Shaughnessy Dam Allowed Los Angeles to expand to 442.7 square miles by 1930, population 1,238,048= 5th largest city Mediterranean Revival style- San Francisco University culture: University of California at Berkeley Burnham Plan: City Beautiful movement- San Francisco & San Diego

5. Chapter 9 Wilmot’s “Proviso”= all land from Mexico no slavery block in congress Natural Limits thesis -1830s expansion of cotton frontier into eastern Texas- slavery could no longer expand Abraham Lincoln won presidency in 1860 slaveholders: expand into Mexico

6. Chapter 9 Utah & New Mexico legalized slavery in 1852 & 1859 CA proslavery in 1850s 1848- Treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo- transferred CA from Mexico to USA 1848- CA’s Gold Rush October 1849: CA settles petitioned Congress to make CA a state (against slavery) Settlers did not wan to compete with salve labor

7. Chapter 9 Introduction of CA as a free state=balance power of slave states in USA CA-Democratic (David Broderick and David Terry) Broderick & Terry dueled- Broderick died 1859: a bill to split CA in two-failed

8. Chapter 12 California founded on racial distinctions & repressions 1871: lynching of Chinese in LA Anti-Japanese “White California” Segregation of Japanese schoolchildren Jim Crow: Mexican, African, Japanese Americans LA: most important Jewish civilization center 1900s: San Francisco highest proportion of foreign-born residents relative to total population 1930s: Dust Bowl many went to CA

9. Chapter 12 WWII: increase of African Americans 1965: Immigration & Nationality Acts amendments Asians immigrated on equal basis=increase Asia America population 85 languages in LA school district Watts riots or 1965: black vs. white LA riots of 1992: black & browns vs. whites & Koreans O.J. Simpson trail or 1995: murder of two white people whether a black defendant could get a fair treatment

10. Chapter 12 1992 Illegal immigration: CA’s biggest problem 1960s Kennedy’s reform of immigration laws 1 million Chinese, 1 million Filipinos Latino population: 7.7 million 1990 LA- 3rd largest Mexican city in world “Save Our State: Prop 187 withdrawal of all public support for illegals 2000: CA strong Hispanic majority