california
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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)
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Lux v. Haggin (1877)
Henry Miller & Charles Luxagainst 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
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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
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
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
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
Source Slide
California
Kevin Starr
Chapter 7: Great Expectations: Creating the
Infrastructure of a Mega-State
Chapter 12: Ecumenopolis: Forging a World
Society