Great Depression & New Deal
This 1929 event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
This California industry expanded rapidly during WWII producing ships and aircraft.
What is the defense industry?
This 1992 event in Los Angeles followed the Rodney King verdict.
What are the LA Riots?
This California region became the global center of the tech industry.
What is Silicon Valley?
This 1969 spill off the California coast helped launch modern environmental regulation.
What is the Santa Barbara oil spill?
This New Deal program employed young men in conservation and infrastructure projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This federal policy relocated Japanese Americans to camps during WWII.
What is internment?
This UC Berkeley movement protested restrictions on student political activity in the 1960s.
What is the Free Speech Movement?
This California law limited property tax increases and reshaped state funding.
What is Proposition 13?
This California organization, co-founded by John Muir, advocated for conservation of wilderness areas.
What is the Sierra Club?
This California author wrote The Grapes of Wrath about Dust Bowl migrants.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This California region became a major hub for shipbuilding and aircraft production during World War II.
What is the San Francisco Bay Area / Los Angeles coastal industrial zone?
This labor leader organized farmworkers and led national boycotts in California.
Who is César Chávez?
This 1988 law allowed Native American tribes to operate casinos.
What is the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act?
This early 2000s crisis involved electricity shortages, blackouts, and deregulation issues.
What is the California energy crisis?
This migration movement brought thousands of displaced farmers to California in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl migration?
This order authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This Oakland-based organization promoted Black empowerment and community defense in the 1960s.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This combination of high housing costs and uneven job growth has contributed to long-term affordability challenges in California’s major metro areas.
What is the California housing affordability crisis?
This 1930s dam on the Colorado River provided hydroelectric power and water to California and the Southwest while reshaping interstate water politics.
What is Hoover Dam?
This group of migrants, many from Oklahoma and Arkansas, moved to California during the 1930s in search of agricultural work.
Who are the “Okies”?
This Los Angeles-based aircraft manufacturer became one of the largest defense contractors in the U.S. during WWII.
What is Lockheed Aircraft Corporation?
This 1965 uprising was sparked by the arrest of Marquette Frye in Los Angeles.
What is the Watts Riots?
This California energy company became a central figure in the early 2000s energy crisis due to trading practices and market manipulation allegations.
What is Enron?
This 1908–1913 project redirected water from the Owens Valley over 200 miles to Los Angeles, reshaping Southern California’s growth.
What is the Los Angeles Aqueduct?