CALIFORNIA HISTORY

Discipline: History

Type of Paper: Essay (any type)

Academic Level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)

Paper Format: APA

Pages: 2 Words: 550

Question

Answer the question below in multiple paragraphs with examples from the terms.... make sure you stay within the proper time frame late 1800's to 1900's.

Describe how the arrival of growing numbers of Anglo-Americans affected California society in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. You may consider how growing Anglo-American dominance changed society, the environment, the economy, and the lives of various racial/ethnic groups, among other possible changes.

use terms:

California missions

gente de razón/ gente sin razón

Chumash Uprising of 1824

Jedidiah Smith

Mexican Land Grants

Sutter's Fort

Manifest Destiny

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Case of Archie (Archy) Lee

Foreign Miners' Tax, 1850

Foreign Miners' Tax, 1852

hydraulic mining

doctrine of prior appropriation

Bureau of Land Commissioners

Battle of Mussel Slough

Denis Kearney

Article XIX

Chinese Exclusion Act

Modoc War

Pacific Railroad Act

The Central Pacific

Southern Pacific Political Bureau

"Shame of California"

Pacific Railroad Act

The Central Pacific

Southern Pacific Political Bureau

"Shame of California"