1. California
Brooke Soto
M. Arguello

2. Great Expectations
Chapter 7
• California started to lay the foundation of
its political and socioeconomic structures
in 1890s.
• The public works infrastructure created
dams, aqueducts, reservoirs, power
plants,bridges, roadways, buildings, and
stadiums.
• Gold Rush technology made it possible
for irrigation; this would stabilize the
metropolitan infrastructure of San
Francisco & Los Angeles.
• It took over 6 years to build the L.A.
aqueduct, which was over 235 miles of
canals, conduits, and tunnels.

3. Great Expectations
Chapter 7
• Architects started building the surrounding city and schools.
• Stanford University was build in 1891 with beautiful landscapes & vivid
mediterranean implements.
• The building of Stanford inspired the dramatic effort to upgrade
University of California at Berkeley.
• The architect John Galen Howard transformed the university of Berkeley
with a campanile, stadium, outdoor greek theater, and lined plazas.
• American cities started to build and rebuild in San Francisco and San
Diego.
• Goodhue’s California building was the master icon for the development
of Southern California for the next two decades.

4. Great Expectations
Chapter 7
• Population continued to grow until it reached 6.9
million in 1940.
• Most people that migrated were of white or
European descent.
• The Japanese, Mexican American, and African
American eventually made its way to California.
• After the Japanese women migrated over, there
were multiple marriages and child-bearing.
• The Mexican-Americans got blue-collar jobs, while
some were sent back to Mexico.
• African Americans were still ridiculed and
segregated during 1926.
• People that migrated to California became
Americanized after a short time.

5. Great Expectations
Chapter 7
• The white majority of Southern California was
divided into three categories: Oligarchs,
Babbitts, and Folks.
• Oligarchs were the older southern California
families in their 2nd or 3rd generation of wealth.
• Babbitts were newly arrived middle class that
consisted of corporation executives, bankers,
lawyers, doctors, and real estate developers.
• Folks were the white anglo-saxon protestants
from the midwest.
• The booming economy provided jobs for
everyone.

6. An Imagined Place
Chapter 11
• The 20th century debuted three entertainment media that included film,
radio, and television.
• The motion picture camera was first established in France, then England and
the U.S. in 1895.
• Earlier studios were found in New York, Philadelphia, and New Jersey.
• L.A. became the new place for making movies when people realized that it
was great for outside filmmaking.

7. An Imagined Place
Chapter 11
• Seeing a movie brought people together
during the 2nd world war.
• Movie genres ranged to both sides of the
spectrum, which inspired writers to start
creating new works.
• Movies expressed as brooding dramas that
expressed political and racial tensions like
The Ten Commandments spurred writers like
John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway to
create hard-boiled detective stories.

8. An Imagined Place
Chapter 11
• Poets, photographers, and painters brought new styles that created new
realms of vigor for the time period.
• Each artistic movement seemed to inspire the next.
• Music also fit into the transformation from conservative to avant-garde.
• Opera houses and orchestras became popular, which were being put into
movies with sound like Walt Disney’s Fantasia.
• The architect Frank Gehry built one of the greatest building in 2004, The
Disney Hall.

9. Arnold!
Chapter 13
• Is California governable? What kind of government
do Californians want?
• Despite its reputation, California for its first 110
years was a Republican state.
• The more suburbanized California became, the more
Republican it became.
• In 1960s Republicanism became populist and
antigovernment, while the Democrats went the
opposite direction.
• The second half of the 1900s an explosion of
disagreement affected every major category of the
state: politics, feminism, sexuality, education, literary
and artistic value, drugs, and the military.
• The rest of the nation by the 21st century had
become “California-ized”.

10. Arnold!
Chapter 13
• The Free Speech Movement of 1964 at UC Berkeley started a riot among
students.
• There was an expression of opposition to the Vietnam war, fear of being
drafted, desire for more sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll.
• There was a mass arrest of about 750 students.
• The movement helped launch a sensibility and an attitude in the baby
boomer generation that would affect behavior and values in the next 40
years.

11. Arnold!
Chapter 13
• The Hippie Movement also happened
in 1964
• Hippies became attached to the
symbols of peace and friendship
• They dressed in motley
arrangements like tie-dyed fabrics,
beads, headbands, and flowers.
• In 1967, the Summer of Love mass
rally happened. Psychedelic music and
marijuana smoke appeared as a layer
of San Francisco fog.
• Hippie movement turned into drug-
driven society.

12. Arnold!
Chapter 13
• Primary task of the government is to do day to day work necessary to keep
society functioning.
• Politics is the theater of opinion and it requires a drama with a plot.
• Immigration has always been an issue along with environment, education,
social programs, and taxation.
• Everything costs money $$$
• California was given a glimmer of hope when Arnold Schwarzenegger was
elected governor.
• He called California the golden dream by the sea, which no one had referred
our state to in a long time.