Modern CA History

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Modern CA History
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The Progressive Era

• Early 1900s SF run by Ruef machine
• Progressives A middle class reform movement
• 1911-1917 Governor Hiram Johnson
• Weaken party machines and SPRfor direct
  democracyinitiative, recall, and referenda

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SF again influences national immigration policy

• 1905 San Francisco segregates schools regarding
  Japanese
• 1908 leads to Gentlemans Agreement

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Great Depression 1930-40

• 100,000s of dustbowl refugees migrate here
• "California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to
  live in or see But believe it or not, you
  won't find it so hot
  If you ain't got the do re mi."
• Okie culture

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1934 Governors race

• Former socialist and author of The Jungle, Upton
  Sinclair, runs for office as a Democrat and New
  Dealer on EPIC platform
• Is smeared in first professional media campaign

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Growing Radicalism of the Depression era

• unions organize and strike--previously the
  Wobblies, now the Communist Party among others
• Over 50 strikes of farm workers in 1933

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Salinas strike of 1934-36

• Growers brought over Filipinos to work in fields
  after WWI and exclusion of Chinese and Japanese
• Growers split striking Filipino lettuce pickers
  from white shed workers

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San Francisco General Strike 1934

• Strike shuts down shipping on West Coast
• Entire Bay Area is shut down for 3 day General
  Strike after police force picketing longshoremen
  to allow in scabs

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Again, economic downturn leads to greater
xenophobia

• 100,000s of Mexicans are pushed out or deported
• anti-Filipino riots break out, and they are
  invited to leave under the Filipino
  Repatriation Act of 1935

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WW II and greater military presence

• (Southern) CA becomes a center of US aerospace
  industry
• All filled with basesmany close at end of Cold
  War

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Post-War into 1960s

• Population and economy boom
• Under Governors Earl Warren and Pat Brown
  pro-growth policiesschools, colleges, and
  highways.

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Ronald Reagan 1966-73

• Clashes with counter-culture and UC
• Tries to cut size of state govt.

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Jerry Brown 1974-79

• Supported civil liberties and civil rights and
  appropriate technology, but not the spending of
  his dad