California A History

By Charles Somers

Chapter 4 Striking it Rich

James Marshall finds gold at Sutters mill on Jan 24th 1848

Dec 5 1848 President Polk made it official that GOLD had been found in California

The “rush” a mass migration to California from all over the world

Chapter 4 Striking it Rich

Mostly young men but some middle aged venture to CaliforniaThey would choose one of three routesOverlandShip via panamaShip around the horn

Chapter 4 Striking it Rich

The “mother lode” 210 miles long in sierra Nevada foot hillsThe gold was not under private owenershipIt belonged to everyone provided they could find it

Santiago de Arguello of Mission San Juan Capistrano, ca.1841

Chapter 5 regulation railroads and revolution

First railroad in California connected San Fransico and Folsom

June 1861 central pacific railroad

Chapter 5 regulation railroads and revolution

Pacific Railway Act 1862

Union Pacific to build east ward from Omaha

Central Pacific to build west ward from Sacramento

1864 incentive act paid the railroads per mile

Chapter 5 regulation railroads and revolution

The trans continental Rail Road

Central pacific and union pacific join tracks at promontory summit Utah

May 10th 1869

Chapter 11 An Imagined Place

The 20th century southern California was home to three entertainment media

Film

Radio

television

Chapter 11 An Imagined Place

1920-30s many studios came to be in southern California Holly wood has never fallen into a slumpGreat studios such as Disney, fox paramount, universal ect.

Chapter 11 An Imagined Place

The grapes of Wrath the first major American novel to be written into a movie script

In the sultans power first movie to be filmed completely in California(1908)

Sources

California by kevin starr

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