THE MARXIST LENNONIST PSEUDO STUDY GUIDE
California History Ch1 -11
KEY NAMES, TERMS, AND CONCEPTS
(Almost a study guide)
plate tectonics
Pacific Plate
North American Plate
subduction
Sierra Nevada
Great Central Valley
San Andreas Fault
Yosemite
Mt. Whitney
Mt. Shasta
Owens Valley
Coast Ranges
Mojave Desert
Death Valley
geographical isolation
microthermal climates
racism
Stone Age culture
hunter-gatherers
agriculturalists
"Digger" Indians
acorns
tule balsa
tribelets
sweathouse
female elders
toloache
culture areas
"world-renewal" cult
El Dorado
Hernan Cortes
Sergas de Esplandián
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
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Alta California
Francis Drake
Nova Albion
Manila Galleon
Sebastian Vizcaino
mission
presidio
pueblo
rancho
Jose de Galvez
Franciscans
Father Junipero Serra
Sacred Expedition
Captain Gaspar de Portola
Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada
Father Juan Crespi
El Camino Real
Antonio de Bucareli
Captain Juan Bautista de Anza
Mission San Francisco de Asis
Felipe de Neve
El Pueblo San Jose de Guadalupe
El Pueblo de Los Angeles
Yuma Massacre
Fermin Francisco de Lasuen
Comte de La Perouse
Hugo Reid
Victoria
Villa de Branciforte
Lt. Gabriel Moraga
Count Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov
Dona Concepcion Arguello
Russian-American Fur Company
Fort Ross
Mexican Revolution
Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States
ranchero oligarchy
Jose Maria Echeandia
Manuel Victoria
Governor Jose Figueroa
secularization
Juan Bautista Alvarado
Jose Castro
Mariano Vallejo
Pio Pico
rancho land grants
rodeo
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matanza
“poco tiempo”
seigneurial
sea otter
hide and tallow trade
Richard Henry Dana
Jedediah Strong Smith
James Ohio Pattie
Joseph Reddeford Walker
Abel Stearns
Thomas Oliver Larkin
John Marsh
John Sutter
John Bidwell
Lansford W. Hastings
Donner Party
President Andrew Jackson
manifest destiny
President James K. Polk
John Slidell
Polk-Larkin plan
John C. Fremont
Jessie Benton Fremont
Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Bear Flag Revolt
Chrysopylae
Mexican War
Commodore John D. Sloat
Commodore Robert F. Stockton
General Stephen W. Kearney
San Pascual
Capitulation of Cahuenga
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
James Wilson Marshall
Sutter's mill
forty-eighters
Samuel Brannan
gold fever
forty-niners
Isthmus of Panama
Cape Horn
California Trail
mother lode
placer mining
rocker
"long tom"
sluice
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mining codes
quartz mining
arrastre
hydraulic mining
"economic multiplier"
alcalde
Bennet Riley
William M. Gwin
constitutional convention of 1849
separate property rights
California state seal
California state capital
Thomas Jefferson Green
Compromise of 1850
David C. Broderick
Know-Nothing party
David S. Terry
Pico plan for state division
California election of 1861
California Battalion
vigilantism
the Hounds
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance (1851)
Josefa Segovia (Juanita)
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance (1856)
James King of William
James P. Casey
William Tell Coleman
Law and Order party
Fort Gunneybags
People's party
gringos envidiosos
foreign miners' license tax
"poco mas o menos"
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Henry Halleck
Sacramento "squatter riot"
William Carey Jones
Gwin Act of 1851
The Squatter and the Don
Las Mariposas
Rancho San Antonio
Taiping Rebellion
Gum San
"credit-ticket" system
People v. Hall (1854)
Edward F. Beale
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Modoc Indians
Ishi
Alfred L. Kroeber
Archy Lee
Franchise League
testimony law
federal civil rights act
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Ward v. Flood (1874)
Biddy Mason
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