How the arrival of growing numbers of Anglo-Americans affected California society in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.
Discipline: History
Type of Paper: Question-Answer
Academic Level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)
Paper Format: MLA
Question
Description
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"
