The Decades
The decade did the Civil War occured
What is the 1860s?
The naming of California
What is a Spanish book?
These brought farmers to CA in the late 1800s
What are irrigation and refrigerated train cars?
The three main reasons why African Americans were pushed out of the South
What are no job opportunities, racial discrimination, and poor living conditions
This pushed Mexicans to immigrate to the U.S.
What is the Mexcian Revolution?
How U.S. farmers found workers after WWII
What is recruit undocumented workers?
The only way a person could flee Vietnam once the communists gained control
What is fleeing by boat?
The governor of California
Who is Gavin Newsom?
The decade that WWI occurred
What is the 1910s?
How the U.S. gained California
What is the Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This pushed filmmakers to move west
What are Edison's patents?
This pulled African Americans north
What is WWI and jobs?
They were excluded from the 1924 Quota Act
Who are Mexican Immigrants?
How Americans felt about immigrant labor in the 1950s
What is it turned against immigrants due to concerns over illegal immigration?
Who was included in the Amerasian Homecoming Act of 1987?
What are U.S? citizens with Vietnamese mothers?
California's senators
Who are Butler and Padilla?
The decade that The Great Depression occurred
What is the 1930s?
Forced Mexican landowners off their land when CA became a state
What is the Land Act of 1851?
Two things that pulled filmmakers to California
What is cheap land, good weather, and changing landscapes?
Work African Americans found during WW II in the Bay Area
What are shipbuilding and wartime industries?
The reasons behind mass deportations of Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the 1930s
What are economic hardship/Great Depression and racism?
This led the U.S. to evacuate South Vietnamese civilians and military personal in 1975
What is the end of the Vietnam War or the fall of Vietnam to communism?
Indian immigrants in the late 1800s found jobs in these two industries in California
What are lumber, railroads, and agriculture?
San Ramon's congressman
Who is Mark DeSaulnier
The year CA became a state
What is 1850?
This discouraged Mexicans from looking for gold
What is the Foreign Miners' Tax?
These lead to the Dust Bowl
What are drought, high winds, and bad farming practices?
He owned the shipyards in Richmond
Who is Kaiser?
Hoover's slogan that supported deporations
What is American Jobs for Real Americans?
The reason Cambodians left their country
What is fleeing the Khmer Rouge who killed between 1.7 and 2 million Cambodians?
Why the Indian population dropped in half after 1920
What is lost their citizenship and land?
This act ended immigration from India to the U.S.
What is the Barred Zone Act?
The decade WWII happened
What is the 1940s?
What happened to the Latin American and Asian population between 1860 and 1900 in California
What is the population decreased?
The author of The Grapes of Wrath
Who is John Steinbeck?
He painted the Great Migration series
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
The program put into place in the 1940s when American farm workers went to war
What is the Bracero Program?
It increased competition for visas among Latin American immigrants, including Mexicans
What is the elimination of the Quota Act and or the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act?
The U.S. passed this in response to the number of Cambodians coming to the U.S.
What is the Refugee Act that limited the number of refugees the U.S would take in a year?
What is Repatriation and Operation Wetback