California History
Final Review Sheet ( 2pgs)
Be prepared to write yet another thoughtful essay! Your exam topics will come from a combination of the ideas listed below. Make sure to go back and study the essay assignments that you have already written and pay careful attention to the marks and suggestions that I have written on those essays.
5 parts: Moore, Shlain, lecture, roadtrips and notable californians
Moore:
1. Why did people choose to live in Richmond before the war? What affect did encouraging industry have on the city of Richmond? What was the Pullman Company & Jim Crow?
2. Why did people leave the South and come to Richmond -- what did they leave behind and what did they expect? Was there ever discrimination in Richmond?
3. How did the war boom strain city resources during WWII.
Large population influx exerted a great pressure on the local educational resources. A 1943 census showed the city’s population of children rose to 23,000, and that alone had equaled the whole city’s population three years earlier. The classrooms of Richmond’ small neighborhood schools, which were designed to accommodate less than thirty people, were now packed with over sixty students. The increase in the number of students was couple by the insufficiency of teaching resources, and as a result, a lot of new teachers, who themselves were newcomers, were temporarily hired. Most of these teachers hadn’t gone through professional training, and lacked the ability and patience to deal with the student body that came from a diverse cultural background. School authorities didn’t seek to improve the situation because they were mistakenly believe that the tension would be automatically resolve once these newcomers returned to their home states when the war was over, which proved not to be the case. The limited living space in Richmond couldn’t accommodate the residential need of populous newcomers, so many of them chose to instead live in neighboring cities, leading the
Be prepared to write yet another thoughtful essay! Your exam topics will come from a combination of the ideas listed below. Make sure to go back and study the essay assignments that you have already written and pay careful attention to the marks and suggestions that I have written on those essays.
5 parts: Moore, Shlain, lecture, roadtrips and notable californians
Moore:
1. Why did people choose to live in Richmond before the war? What affect did encouraging industry have on the city of Richmond? What was the Pullman Company & Jim Crow?
2. Why did people leave the South and come to Richmond -- what did they leave behind and what did they expect? Was there ever discrimination in Richmond?
3. How did the war boom strain city resources during WWII.
Large population influx exerted a great pressure on the local educational resources. A 1943 census showed the city’s population of children rose to 23,000, and that alone had equaled the whole city’s population three years earlier. The classrooms of Richmond’ small neighborhood schools, which were designed to accommodate less than thirty people, were now packed with over sixty students. The increase in the number of students was couple by the insufficiency of teaching resources, and as a result, a lot of new teachers, who themselves were newcomers, were temporarily hired. Most of these teachers hadn’t gone through professional training, and lacked the ability and patience to deal with the student body that came from a diverse cultural background. School authorities didn’t seek to improve the situation because they were mistakenly believe that the tension would be automatically resolve once these newcomers returned to their home states when the war was over, which proved not to be the case. The limited living space in Richmond couldn’t accommodate the residential need of populous newcomers, so many of them chose to instead live in neighboring cities, leading the