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Welcome to History 20 History of California and the Pacific Coast Prof. Valadez 1
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Welcome to History 20
History of California and the Pacific Coast
Prof. Valadez
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Revisiting the California’s Past
Indigenous 20,000 B.C.E-
1769
Spanish 1769-1821
Mexican
1821-1848
Gold Rush January 24, 1848
American
February 2, 1848
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History 20 History of California Week 7
Explain American motives for the expansion into California and their economic and cultural impact.
What laws did Americans establish in California that led to unequal treatment based on race and ethnicity?
How does the building of the transcontinental impact California?
What are the main political, economic, and social developments in late 19th century?
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The miners came in '49,
The whores in '51, And when they got together,
They produced the native son.
No law enforcement = vigilantes
• Committees
• Self-rule
• Arbitrary
• The Lynching of Juanita 1851
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http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/california-hang-trees-lynching.html
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Questions for discussion
Is this a primary source or secondary source?
How do you know? What kind of document is it?
Who was Joaquin Murieta?
What does the story of Joaquin Murieta tell us about race relations in the Gold Rush era?
When does the story of Joaquin Murieta get reinterpreted where he comes to be viewed as a defender of his people?
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JOAQUIN MURIETA
• First legends
• Villain
• Sonoran miner
• Band of 5 Joaquins
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Compromise of 1850
– California was a free state
– New Mexico & Utah would decide status
– Texas’s debt and claim
– Ban the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
– Amended Fugitive Slave Act
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• 1849 Constitution
– Based on NY state’s Constitution
– Prohibited Slavery
– Required laws to be published in 2 languages
– Granted women the right to own property
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1849 California Constitution
• ARTICLE XI.
• Sec. 21. All laws, decrees, regulations, and provisions, which from their nature require publication, shall be published in English and Spanish.
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Broderick-Gwin Feud
David Broderick
Free-soil
David S. Terry
Pro-slavery & in a duel kills Broderick
CALIFORNIOS
• Land loss
• Owners became workers
1851 California Land Act • Provided that claims to all lands in California be
presented within two years of the date of the act
• Many people didn’t know the requirements and therefore lost their land
• 200 families 14 million acres
• 1880-1890 only 5 % of Californios landowners
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Maria Ruiz de Burton 1832-1895
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Californios
• Gold Rush 1849
• $$$
– Cattle, etc.
• “Foreigners”
• ++ Anglos
• - political power
• Southern California
Californios
Antonio Coronel Pio Pico
L.A. Sherriff Tomás Sánchez, Californio
LA City Council (1850) Ygnacio del Valle.
12th Governor of California ( was not elected) February 27, 1875 – December 9, 1875
Romualdo Pacheco
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• Drought 1860s
• Economic -
Pony Express 1860
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days
East
coast
to west
coast
1857-1861
Stage coach company
St Louis to S.F.
23 days
Tiburcio Vasquez 1835-1875 “A spirit of hatred and revenge took
possession of me. I had numerous fights in defense of what I believed to be my rights and those of my countrymen. I believed we were unjustly deprived of the social rights that belonged to us."
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San Quentin Prison 1852
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Black Bart
• “I’ve labored long and hard for bred (bread)
• For honor and for riches
• But on my corns too long yove (you’ve) tred (tread)
• You fine-haired sons ___ _____.”
• Black Bart , 1877
Southern Route?
Gadsden Purchase 1854
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Northern Route?
The Election of 1860
Despite so little support in the South that in many areas his name did not
even appear on the ballot, Abraham Lincoln, won a decisive victory in the election of 1860. The election of the anti-slavery Republican was seen as a calculated Northern insult by many Southerners and proved to be the last straw that would lead much of the South to secede and sink the nation into civil war.
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Lincoln’s Address
Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S. C.
April 12, 1861, Confederates attack Fort Sumter
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• Drum Barracks Civil War Museum • http://www.sanpedro.com/sp_point/drmbrks.htm
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Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
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Union Pacific
• Irish, Mormon Workers
Southern Pacific
• Chinese Workers
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Railroad companies become the largest landowner in CA
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May 10, 1869 Promontory Point, Utah
BBC Video
Seven Wonders of the Industrial Road BBC Transcontinental Rail Road
• Transcontinental Railroad (1of5)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3OM_UnnCNM
• Transcontinental Railroad (2of5)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOn0RFFOr1s&feature=related
• Transcontinental Railroad (3of5)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5WxDvs3cB8&feature=related
• Transcontinental Railroad (4of5)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2Zxpm8Dk4&feature=relate
Transcontinental Railroad (5of5)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzbCkMjdZKE&feature=related
