Okay my current event is on the california bullet train. This train will go from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The state senate just recently gave 8 billion dollars for the first part of the 130 miles of track and also a couple other local transit upgrades. It was a tough win for democratic leaders because they got the bare minimum of 21 votes which were all democratic votes. This was a victory for Governor Jerry Brown and the Obama administration who have been pushing for this. It would also be
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The California Gold Rush 5/1/13 The California Gold Rush Before the Gold Rush of 1849‚ California was a sparsely populated‚ unimportant territory of the United States mostly inhabited by the people of Mexico. However‚ that all changed when on January 24‚ 1848; carpenter and small time sawmill operator James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River that would forever change the history of California and America1. Not only did the Gold Rush lead to
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con Cánada y Estados Unidos Julia M. Essay: The California Gold Rush Until 1849‚ California always used to be a sleepy‚ little-known backwater. However‚ with the California Gold Rush suddenly everything changed. The city‚ people‚ culture‚ infrastructure as well as the economy. In no time the California Gold Rush transformed the isolated island of tranquility to an unruly emporium of business and bedlam. When we think about the California Gold Rush today‚ many of us only know about the good
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"Santa Cruz Island"(Modern Baja California)‚ for Spain in 1535. Later Spanish explorer‚ Francisco de Ulloa‚ under the commission of Hernán Cortés‚ surveyed the west coast of modern Mexico and Baja California Peninsula‚ leading to the belief in an Island of California. Portuguese surveyor‚ Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo‚ was the first to explore the California coast‚ traveling from San Diego to Pt. Reyes in 1542; he too believed in an Island of California. “Island of California‚” Spanish East Indies‚ Spanish
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something it had never experienced before. How did the California Gold Rush Impact
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History of the California Missions (1769-1823) You may already know that there are 21 missions today in the state of California. Starting in San Diego all the way past San Francisco‚ the missions remind us of an earlier time when the Spanish were colonizing Alta California. The California missions were started because the Spanish king wanted to create permanent settlements in the area of the New World called Alta California. The decision to create Spanish missions in California was political
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California History Vocabulary July 1769: Spanish Gov. chose to settle in California in San Diego 1542 official welcoming for Spanish to California October 12‚1492: Columbus’ expedition to find treasure for queen Isabella 1517 Spanish created civilization where the Native Americans were 1519 Cortez comes to shore at the FIRST Spanish city Vera Cruz Aztec- Montezuma was the god there at the time Cortes came to America -Montezuma sent 13‚000 pounds of gold to Cortes to leave his land.
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n The California Condor is a New World vulture‚ the largest North American land bird. Currently‚ this condor inhabits only the Grand Canyon area‚ Zion National Park‚ and coastal mountains of central and southern California and northern Baja California. Although other fossil members are known‚ it is the only surviving member of the genus It is black with patches of white on the underside of the wings and a largely bald head‚ with skin color ranging from yellowish to a bright red depending on the
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Baja California‚ Mexico Baja California is one of the 31 states in Mexico. It is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. But before becoming a state in 1953‚ the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70‚113 km2 (27‚071 sq mi)‚ or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean‚ on the east by Sonora‚ the U.S. State of Arizona‚ and the Gulf
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California is a state of enormous diversity. From the coast to the mountains and the forests to the deserts‚ California is full of a wide array of plant life. California is the third largest state in the United States and thus has a major variation in climate resulting in the many plants found. Not only are there many plants found here‚ but many of those plants cannot be found anywhere else. There are also many nonnative plants that have become a part of the scenery in California. The best way to
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