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San Francisco's Playland |
A venue that had roller coasters, a funhouse, a mirror maze and a ferris wheel |
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All American canal |
The all American Canal was the canal located entirely on U.S. soil it was located in Southern California. This canal conveys water from the Colorado River into the Imperial Valley and nine other cities. It is the world's largest irrigation canal |
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Digorgio fruit company |
Giuseppe diorgio was a sicilian immigrant who bought 5845 acres of land in the San Joaquin Valley. He drilled Wells and used electric pumps to water his apricots grapes and peaches. 10 years later the company operated the world's largest fruit packing plant this plant included activities such as grading packaging and shipping the produce |
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Edward Doheny (oil tycoon) |
President Warren Harding took the oil Reserve control from the Navy and gave it to Secretary of interior Albert Fall. Fall least the petroleum reserves in Elk Hills to Doheny's oil company at a low rate without interference from competitive bidding period. after federal investigation for was convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe from Doheny |
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Miracle mile |
Was a Valley plaza mall based structure which was an extension of the Wilshire Boulevard. It accommodated passing through travelers with motels, gas stations and grocery stores. As well as a few other types of business |
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Aimee Semple Mcherson |
She was called sister Aimee. She migrated from the East Coast settling in Los Angeles in 1918. It was there that she built the 5000 seat Los Angeles Temple headquartered in the International Church of the FourSquare gospel. Her sermons were aired on the radio. Stretcher story. She provided meals to thousands of unemployed Angelo's during the Depression ridden 1930's |
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CAWIU |
The CAWIU was the cannery and agricultural workers industrial Union. |
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Bloody Thursday |
The West Coast longshoremen struck shutting down all major ports. They wanted $1 an hour, a 6 hour work day, and a 30 Hour Work Week.San Francisco Port business Executives brought in police on July 5th. Police were armed with Riot sticks and tear gas. People died. The governor sent in the national guard. This general Strike lasted 4 days |
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Upton Sinclair |
Upton Sinclair a former socialist party memeber ran for governor as a part of the Democratic Party. His acronym was epic (ending poverty) an opposing party that had help from movie production Studio worked to portray Sinclair as an atheist, a free love Advocate, and a communist who's governorship would attract hobos. Sinclair opposed the tax raise that would go towards retirement programs. |
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Embarcadero |
San Fransisco city's ship loading water front. This is where the longshore man's labor strike took place. |
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Henry J kaiser's victory ships |
Henry Kaiser was an important builder on the Hoover Dam. Kaiser oversaw the production of Liberty ships as well as victory ships. The building of the ships provided over a hundred thousand workers with jobs on the for interconnected shipyards. He used assembly line and prefabrication techniques. The shipyard in Richmond Virginia set a record by building the "S.S. Robert Perry" in just four days. His shipyards produce 30% of America's war time shipping. He provided his workers with high wages, Medical Care, and Military exemptions since their jobs were considered critical to the war effort |
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Auxiliary locals |
A second class Organization for colored people |
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Brotherhood of Boilermakers |
A union of white men who worked at Marinship. They denied balck workers he wanted membership. They encouraged the Negroes to join "auxiliary locals" which gave them no voting rights in Union Affairs and smaller insurance benefits than the counterpart white worker |
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Executive order 9066 |
President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 that authorized removal and relocation of people within Japanese descent |
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Military-industrial-complex |
This complex consisted of Military installations,shipyards, aircraft plants, and universities. Huge portions of federal dollars sustain the things that link the components of the complex |
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Liberty and Victory ships |
These were large military cargo vessels carrying weapons, munition, tanks, and jeeps to the war front |
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Lockheed aviation company |
Lockheed was an aviation company who offered its workers with food service, counseling, dental and Eye Care, Banking and more. By 1944 Lockheed was Los Angeles County's largest employer with 90,000 employees |
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Norhop |
An aviation company based in Los Angeles |
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Kenneth and Stephen Bechtel built liberty ships in the town of sausalito |
Their company "Marinship" employed 19000 workers in 1942 and produced 93 vessels including Liberty ships and tankers. They had a closed shop which meant they hired only union workers. Their hourly wage of a dollar was only for a journeyman laborer is that is those having gone through an apprenticeship and considered competent in their trade or craft. They had an on-site public housing project that included its own post office, Library, Nursery, Elementary School, grocery store, Laundry matt and Dry Cleaning establishment. you could rent a dormitory room in an apartment or 6 room detached house |
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San Fransisco |
San Fransisco captured national attention as the founding city of the United Nations |
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Fred Korematsu |
Fred Korematau refused to be evacuated when the Japanese are being taken to concentration camps. His attorneys raised the question of whether "American citizens, because of their Japanese ancestry could be constitutionally imprisoned in camps" |
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442nd regimental combat team |
The 442nd regimental combat team was a Japanese unit in the army. The 442 unit fought in the European theater of conflict. |
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J Robert Oppenheimer |
J Robert Oppenheimer was a UC Berkeley faculty member. he worked on the Manhattan Project which built the atomic bomb. He led a team of scientists from other universities later he admitted that he felt guilty for dropping the bomb |
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Bracero program |
We brought in low-paid laborers from Mexico. This immigration was allowed through a congressional act and treaty. White labor workers opposed the Bracero Program because they said it allowed the farming companies to lower wages and worsen working conditions. they argued we didn't need the Bracero labor considering it only made up 30% of the migrant Workforce. |
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Zoot suit riots |
A series of racial attacks in Los Angeles/California between Mexican males and American army men. |
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G.I. bill |
The G.I. bill was a law that provided active or Reserve members of the army with low-cost mortgages, a low interest rate to start businesses, cash payments for tuition or for living expenses as well as one year of unemployment compensation. |
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Earl Warren |
President Dwight D Eisenhower appointed Governor Earl Warren. Warrens most infamous ruling was in the Brown versus education case where he ruled racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. As governor warren wanted to raise the tax on gasoline to fiance the building of freeways/highways. He later became a supreme court chief justice |
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HUAC |
The HUAC was the house of un-american activities committee. They're main job was to filter out "reds" They thought the Hollywood film industry was employing Communist. They fired 250 actors, writers, and directors who are suspected of having communist ties. The HUAC created a loyalty oath for all California University employees that swore against communism. If professors refused to recite the oath they were fired. The oath was later voted unconstitutional and the fired professors were given their jobs back |
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Watts |
Watts was a black neighborhood in los Angeles. The watts slogan was "we want the kind of life a white man has" Police arrested a black man for drinking and driving at the scene of arrest a rumor spread that the police missed treatded two black woman this caused six days of rioting and looting. The National Guard was sent in to stop the Looting their 34th deaths a thousand injuries 4,000 arrests and 40 million dollars in property damage. |
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Black panthers |
Huey p netwon and Bobby Seale were black radicals in Oakland who started the black panthers group. Armed with guns and law books the Black Panthers followed cop cars making sure that any African-American who happened to get pulled over did not become a victim of racialized mistreatment. They engaged in police shootouts |
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National farm workers association |
Caesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the NFWA. Chavez lead The Association through boycotts, marches, and Strikes in hopes of securing higher wages and better working conditions for all agriculture employees |
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Delano grape strike |
The Delano grape strike was launched by Filipino workers. The work stoppage put a spotlight on the Grim working conditions endured by field workers everywhere. They marched 300 miles caring Mexican flags from Delano to Sacramento |
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Proposition 14 |
Prop 14 tempted to relegalize discrimination by landlords and property owners. This proposition repelled the Rumford Housing Act. It was passed but later deemed unconstitutional |
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Brown berets |
The brown berets were a Mexican organization formed during the civil rights movement. Their beliefs are anit-miltary, anti-police and anti-border patrol. They used the same teachings as the black panthers. |
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Baby boom |
Increase in birth rates following World War 2 |
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Chavez Ravine |
Chavez Ravine was a piece of land in LA intended for public housing that would be owned by Mexicans. But then the government kicked out all home owners and used the land to build the Dodger's stadium |
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Unruh civil rights act |
This act prohibited businesses from discriminating on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion or medical conditions. Compensation was provided if wrong doing could be proven. |
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Master Plan of education |
The master plan of Education was developed by a survey team appointed by the UC Regents during the administration of Governor Pat Brown and Clark Kerr. The master plan of Education set out to find rolls of secondary educational facilities like UC's state universities, and community colleges. It also defined the standard for acceptance into these schools based on where you placed GPA wise in your high school class. The master plan for Education was responsible for the creation of college tuition. |
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Governor pat brown |
Governor Pat Brown didn't graduate from college, he was a lifelong Catholic,he opposed the death penalty. His biggest accomplishment was making the state water project happen |
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Counter culture |
Counter Culture values stressed and earthy lifestyle and refrainment from Material wealth. Also the idea of free love which was an acceptance of non-exclusive sexual relationships. They also had an openness to experimentation with mind altering drugs. Hippies held that people over the age of 30 who held jobs, paid mortgages, and supported families were a part of corporate America's establishment which was thought to be the cause of society's Wars, racism, and poverty. |
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Summer of love |
Summer love was a giant social Gathering that took place in the neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. Approximately 75000 hippies attended. They listened to the Grateful Dead and wore shirts that said "Make Love Not War" this event ended with a group Gathering watching the sunset |
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Flower child |
A person who wears flower blossoms in her hair |
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Consumer redlining |
Consumer redlining is a way of denying services to People based on race by using price controls in select neighborhoods. |
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China clipper |
It was Panamerican airway companies's first of the four engine flying boats to complete commercial airmail service. A few years later pan American introduced passenger flights over the same routes |
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Spirit of St.Louis |
The spirit of St Louis was flown by Charles Lindbergh and he competed the first transatlantic flight |
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Lincoln club |
Centered in New port beach. The club's goal was to shrink size of government, reduce taxes and expand economic freedom |
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John Smitz |
Smitz was kicked out of the John Birch society for being an extremist |
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Prop 13 |
This prop aimed to prevent property tax increase. The measure limited taxs on both residential and commercial properties. It was passed |
