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Stanislaus

Yo Indian, who went to the San Jose Mission to learn about Jesus, but saw all the slavery and rape so left and brought back his tribe and they attacked the missionaries

Montalvo

Guy who wrote adventure stories in the early 1500s, they were historical fiction but people believe they were true that's where the name California came from

Force labor

Idea that if you work this much, then you are released. Labor is like paid taxes and it's not slavery. The Spanish did it when they colonized and made the missions.

mercantilism

The quality could only trade with its motherland, which limits economic growth

Bourbon reforms

Reforms during the Spanish empire of California, made everyone pay taxes, change the religious order, divided the Spanish people, and promoted Franciscans

Mexico independence

Gain independence in 1821 till 1848

Napoleon

A French guy who wanted to take over and expand Europe, he sold Americans the Louisiana territory in 1804

The Louisiana purchase

Americans bought the Louisiana territory from France in 1804, included the Mississippi river and cheap farmland

3/5 compromise

Said that Black people were counted as 3/5 of a person in terms of representatives per state

Compromise of 1820

Brought in Missouri as a slave state, but drew a line under Missouri

Steven F Austin

Went to the Mexican government in Texas and asked if American families could come to Texas, they said yes because it was good for the economy so he went

Centralists versus federalists

Centralists want a strong central government. Federalists what states to have power

Santa Ana

A federalist who came to Mexico City, it took over, and became a centralist. His led to other smaller states to Mexico, fighting for centralism, leaning into the Texans fighting for independence and winning

William Walker

Went to Sonora and tried to make an independent colony for slavery, then went to Nicaragua declared himself president in Nicaragua, he was killed

The gold Rush

Gold found in 1848, huge population booth, Bay, California eligible for statehood

Thomas Jefferson Green

Military officer who brought slaves to California to get gold, the 49ers kick them out

Compromise of 1850

California enters as a free state, but the fugitive slave act makes it mandated to return escaped slaves, and the doctrine of popular sovereignty says states get to choose whether or not they would slavery

William Ellis

Escape slavery went to Mexico and came back to the US as a Mexican

Kansas, Nebraska act

Kid in Nebraska get to choose whether or not they are slave states. Bleeding Kansas; both the north of the south said they won, set up their government, and fought one another.

John Brown

A white abolitionist who went to Kansas and murdered slave owners, he led the rain on Harper's ferry, which is where he was executed

Charles Sumner

White abolitionist in Congress, who was beat by Preston Brooks by a cade because he talked about how slave owners would rape their slaves

Dread Scott

A slave in a sleeve state, he went to Supreme Court over this, but he was told that a black person can't sue what he would because they are not a citizen

1860 Lincoln versus Douglas election

Douglas wanted to under by the dreaded Scott case with the Freeport doctrine, Lincoln ended up winning due to a plurality

Freeport doctrine

Call Grace will stop funding the police territories, stopping the police from catching runway slaves

Southern succession

Cornerstone speech, slavery is the greatest form of wealth

1851 the regulators a.k.a. the hounds

Vigilante committee who would kill non-whites for any little reason

William Tecumseh Sherman

Commander of the militia in California, he tried to stop the vigilante but failed

The people's party of 1856

Vigilantes teamed up with business men, he became the official government of San Francisco

Kintpaush

Date that tried to fight back to the 49ers it was murdered

Dawes act

Put natives in reservations, “Put natives in reservations, “kill the Indians, save the man”

The big four

Owned the transcontinental railroad and built it

Theodore Judah

Engineer who built the railroad from the Central Valley

Railroad checker boarding

Divides land around railroads between railroad companies and the government

Dennis Kearney

Irish immigrant, who came to California and said he was white, he was the founder of the working man's party of California

The 14th amendment

Birthright citizenship

The Paige act of 1875

Allows men from China to come but not women

Henry Ford

Created the Ford car, he didn't want his workers join unit so we just paid them a lot allowing them to become consumers

Upton Sinclair

Journalist that wrote the jungle which exposed working conditions in Chicago, meat factories, resulting in the pure food and drug active 1906

1912 presidential election

Woodrow Wilson versus Roosevelt. Woodrow won due to plurality, but he was a replacement for Roosevelt, so it was bad that he would.

phelan

Pro you need republican elected as mayor of San Francisco, but when union members strike, he called the cops

Abe ruef

Made the labor union party, he was a party boss, but didn't hold Office and he manipulated immigrant sent to siding with him at his party

Helen Hunt Jackson

Wrote Ramona in 1974, which placed the blame of violence on natives to the Spanish and Mexicans

The LAA plan

In 1926 California redistrict team because California had such a high population