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How were Californian Indian groups organized?
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CA Indian groups were organized into "triblets," villages that recognized a chief.
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Describe tribes in CA
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30+ tribes in pre-Columbian California. Positions were inherited. There was "diplomatic polygamy." Hunting, gathering rights were regulated.
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How was CA affected by the Mexican-American war?
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Californios were supposed to have citizenship. Anlo squatters, land speculators filed false claims. Californios retreated to barrios.
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What was the impact of the Gold Rush?
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Ango population rose from 14,000 to 220,000. Development of San Fransisco into an international city of Chinese, Irish, Italian
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How were moities a factor in diplomatic relatipnships among tribes?
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Children belonged to father's moiety, could not kill totemic affiliation. Hunting rights were regulated.
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Describe the CA missions.
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Junipero Serra "father of the missions"
54,000 Indians baptised, taught trades
Indians declined in pop from 72 000 to 18 000.
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Describe Californio society.
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Ranchers, Spanish soldiers, Fransiscans, Mexican villagers paid tribute to landowners
System of debt peonage
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What was the result of Mexican Independence?
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Liberals demanded secularization of missions and redistribution of mission lands. Land ended up in hands of elite. 8 million acres to 800 grantees.
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Describe Anglo domination in California.
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1830- Eentrepreneurs, adventurers arive
1845- Polk triggers war with Texas annexation
1847- American armies conquer DF
Treaty of G. Hidalgo
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How was California affected by World War II?
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$35 billion in government projects
shipbuilding, plane construction
women 1/3 of workforce
Braceros
African Americans
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Zoot Suit Riots
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Sailors violent rampage of barrios
Unchecked by law enforcement
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Mexican Americans in the 1930s
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Forced deportations
Racial scapegoating
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Upton Sinclair 1930's
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EPIC- End poverty in California
Socialist Agenda
Campaign for governor
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CA during the great depression
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1/5 of state on public relief
labor struggles (san fransisco)
food waste in the central valley
union busting
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Los Angeles' natural limitations
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Empty, semi-arid coastal plan
No natural harbors
No novigatable rivers
No dependable water supply
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