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Period: 1524 to
Council of the Indies
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1551
Debate at Valladolid
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Colegio de San Fernando (Mexico)
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Period: to
Expulsion of Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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Period: to
Colonial California (Spanish Period)
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Mission San Diego
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Period: to
21 missions
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Mission San Carlos (Carmel)
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Diseases At Mission San Gabriel
STDs Primary syphilis: "contamination" -
Mission San Antonio de Padua
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Mission San Gabriel
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Period: to
Diseases At Mission San Gabriel
malnutrition, depression ("luxuria") -
Prohibitions against mourning dance
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Jose Francisco Ortega establish Presidio
7 officers, 34 soldiers ~10 Indian "attendants" -
Indian Revolt at San Gabriel
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La Perouse's Expedition
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Mission Santa Barbara founded
constructed in 1787 -
Period: to
Spanish Colonial Period
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Period: to
Diseases At Mission San Gabriel
series of ill-defined diseases ("belly aches" and fevers) -
Diseases At Mission San Gabriel
Diphtheria, pneumonia -
Diseases At Mission San Gabriel
Measles Epidemic -
Napoleonic wars: invasion of Spain
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Spain convenes Cortez of Cadiz
representation; outlines a plan for indigenous freedom and full citizenship throughout the Spanish Empire. -
Evidence of Religious Syncretism: interrogatory
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Spanish Constitution
born subjects granted full citizenship -
codifies Spain's plan to secularize all religious institutions of colonial power
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San Rafael - hospital asistencia (1817)
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Mexico gains independence
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Diseases At Mission San Gabriel
Influenza -
Period: to
Mexican Period
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Agustin Fernandez
travels in California -
Mission San Francisco Solano
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Sacking of Santa Ynez
war spreads to other missions in Chumash area -
Period: to
Chumash Revolt
Chumash war
By the end, only a few hundred Chumash remain in Yokut territory. -
Period: to
Estanislao's War
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Period: to
Diseases At Mission San Gabriel
Malaria -
secularization process
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Bear Flag Revolt
Fermont's 1846 Excursion to upper Sacramento River -
Fremont's Excursion to upper Sacramento River
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Period: to
370 massacres
16,000 - 1,000,000 estimates Indian casualties -
Period: to
Mexican War
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Sutter's Mill, American River Coloma
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Phase 1: gold rush
Local people "rush" to gold regions
Case of San Jose jailer, Monterey city officials, rancheros, U.S. Navy
Indian slaves -
Phase 2: gold rush
Pacific Rim
Experienced miners from Latin America, some from China, Hawaiian laborers -
Period: to
Gold Rush Era
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Period: to
Phase 3: gold rush
National and International
less experience miners from China and Europe
primary from the US -
Period: to
Removal Plan
Fremont formulates removal plan -
Act for the Government and Protection of Indians
13th amendment -> full repeal by 1937 -
Fremont becomes U.S. Senator from California
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"Racherias" system negotiation
100 tribal representatives
Californians object
U.S. senate rejects -
E.F. Beale's Peace Commission and 1853 reservations
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Depopulation
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Major tracts of land opened to development
heavy industrial manufacturing, shipbuilding, and hotels and offices -
Period: to
Major Growth Period in San Francisco
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Period: to
Pacific Railroad Acts
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Period: to
Reconstruction Era
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Northern Paiute/ Washoe leader Tavibo
Millenarian-like belief -
Period: to
Gilded Age
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Los Angeles Massacre
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Period: to
Modoc War
Resistance -
Iconic cable cars first operate
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Period: to
National depression
claims of "unfair competition" because the Chinese can "underlive" white -
Sandlot "rallies"
March on Chinatown -
Period: to
Official slogan of the Workingmen's Party of California
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Electoral victories, coalition rewrote state Constitution
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Bad Blood
Picnic, eviction, shootout (7 dead, 5 convicted of murder) -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
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Period: to
Era of "Reform" : Progressive Era
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Links to beauty - Sierra Club
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North Beach predominantly Italian
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The Octopus - Frank Norris' novel
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Great Earth, San Francisco reformers looks for new water source
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Asiatic Exclusion League establishment
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Improve state’s water infrastructure: State Water Project
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“Gentlemen’s Agreement” - U.S., Japan limit immigration
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Raker Act
Permits damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley -
California’s Alien Land Acts
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Gender Parity reached
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California’s Alien Land Acts
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Immigration Act
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Period: to
The Great Depression
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State’s brief experience with Progressivism, elected EPIC officials
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Period: to
Dust Bowl
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Sinclair’s End Poverty in California plan, left-wing unionism)
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Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI): began collecting lists of potentially disloyal Japanese Americans (Issei)
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Period: to
World War II
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Labor shortages
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"Okie" frameworkers begin moving into industries
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California had 16 military aircraft ready to defend state
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FDR's E.O 8802 bans racial discrimination in war employment (but military is still segregated)
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FDR est. War Production Boards
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War Manpower commission est.
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February 1942: E.O. 9066 calls for removal of all people of Japanese descent from "Special Military Exclusion Zone" on West Coast
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California legislature, civic orgs, newspaper called for internment
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Period: to
U.S. and Mexico sign "Mexican Farm Labor Agreement"
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Period: to
Mexican Farm Labor Agreement
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Chinese Exclusion Act repealed
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Racial conflict: Zoot Suit “Riots”
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Gonzalo Mendez sues Westminster schools
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Port Chicago Disaster
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Port Chicago “Mutiny”
50 Black sailors refuse to return to the site after recovery, arrested, convicted of mutiny -
BIA and Indian Health Services U.S. Indian Lands Commission
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U.S. Navy desegregated
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End to "protective" laws
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Dystopian Dreams
Rebellion, boredom, discontent -
sales office opens
100K people visit model homes in the first month -
Period: to
Liberalism
public spending and civil rights -
Period: to
Suburban period
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Period: to
California's population triples
10- 30 million -
Burns-Porter Act
billion bond measure -
Unruly Civil Rights Act
prohibits discrimination by business, provides for victims to sue for damages in state courts -
Fair Employment Practices Act
prohibits employers and labor unions from discriminating against workers, a bill authored by Augustus Hawkins (EPIC’ 34) -
Period: to
Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, served
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Modern Indian Activism
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CSU system
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HUAC Hearing
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Donohoe Act
creates the Master Plan for Higher Education in California, 1960-1975 -
Period: to
development of Indian activism
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fold song hit "Little Boxes" - "all the same"
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Bond funds for affordable housing (Prop 4)
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“Right to Decline to Sell or Rent” (Prop 14)
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American Council on Education rates Berkeley “best distinguished university” in the country; still top public university in the world
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Proposition 14
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Free Speech Movement at Berkley
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Watt's Riot
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Immigration (Hart-Cellar) Act
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“Segregation Amendment” overturns Rumford, SCOTUS tosses Prop 14
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Hasta Sacramento - Frameworkers' 1966 March from Delano to the state capitol
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Period: to
Conservatism
reduce government and Myth of American Individualism -
The Black Panther Party invades Sacramento
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Rumford restored and strengthened
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San Francisco State Strike
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East Los Angeles Walkouts led thousands of young mostly Mexican American students to protest the inequalities of their public schools by walking out of classes in a mass student strike
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Donohoe Act replicated in 23 other states
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Tax increases accepted - to a point
as cost of public investment in our future -
Period: to
Swinging from liberalism to conservatism
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BART(Bay Area Rapid Transit system)
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Period: to
Liberalism- Fiscal Conservatism
environmentalism and reduce spending -
Limit property tax annual increases (Prop13)
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Defeat Bakke Protest
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Period: to
Immigration "reform" Ban Equity measures
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US government returns remains of executed Modoc
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Bonds for First-time Homeowners (Prop 145)
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Property Tax Relief for Low Income Buyers (154)
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Rodney King Riots
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Proposition 187 - “Save our state” initiative
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Split property tax structure commercial v residential (Prop 15)