The Elusive Eden Chapter Fifteen
The Transcontinental Railroad

1. Why were the Seventies Terrible?
2. In what ways did the Post Transcontinental Railroad World not meet expectations?
3. How was Urban Growth affected by the Transcontinental Railroad?
4. How was Oakland affected by the Transcontinental Railroad?
5. Who was Horace Carpentier?
6. What was the Oakland Waterfront Company?
7. Who was William Gwin?
8. What was the relationship between Los Angeles and the Southern Pacific?
9. What was the relationship between San Diego and the Southern Pacific?
10. What was the Contract and Finance Company?
11. What were Market Towns?
12. Why did the Southern Pacific promote tourists facilities and excursion trains?
13. Why did the Southern Pacific donate land and develop water systems?
14. What do the following towns, Modesto, Merced, Fresno, Tulare, and Hanford share in common?
15. What was the Instant City?
16. What was “railroad mania” in the 1860s?
17. How did The Chronicle react to “railroad mania?”
18. Why was San Francisco 15th largest city in the United States and yet ranked only the 22nd in manufacturing in 1860?
19. How did technological changes in mining affect San Francisco?
20. How did farming affect San Francisco?
21. What was the population of San Francisco in 1880?
22. What was the connection between the railroads and “bonanza wheat?”
23. Was California an “Agricultural Eden” in the late nineteenth century?
24. What caused the agricultural bust of the 1890s?
25. What specialty crops were in introduced into California in the late nineteenth century?
26. What was the California State Agriculture Society and when was it founded?
27. What are the Navel (Washington or Baiá) and Valencia oranges and why are they important?
28. What is the California Fruit Growers Association?
29. Why are agricultural cooperatives important and what crops do they influence?
30. How did the railroads promote horticulture?
31. Why did the railroads promote watershed preservation?
32. What was Frank Norris and The Octopus?
33. What is truck farming?
34. What is the importance of Viticulture? What was the connection to San Gabriel?
35. Who was Agoston Haraszthy?
36. What is difference between “riparian” and appropriation?
37. What was the importance of Lux v. Haggin?
38. What was the importance of the Wright Irrigation Act of 1887?
39. What is Eminent Domain?
40. What are water districts?
41. Who introduced irrigation in Owens valley, Santa Barbara Anaheim and San Bernardino
42. What was the importance of the National Reclamation Act of 1902?
43. What was the connection between Mussel Slough and irrigation?
44. What was the connection between hydraulic mining and the Southern Pacific?
45. What was the “debris injunction?”
46. Who was John Muir and the Sierra Clib?
47. What was the Yosemite Wilderness Preserve?
48. What was the Raker Act of 1913?
49. How was San Francisco socially stratified?
50. What was Nob Hill?
51. What was “Agrarian Democracy?”
52. What was California’s average farm size between 1870 and 1900? How did this compare with the rest of the nation?
53. What was the Patrons of Husbandry?
54. What was the Knights of Labor?
55. What was the Comstock Boom?
56. What was the Panic of ’73?
57. What was the connection between the Anti-Chinese riots and the Working Man’s Party?
58. How was the Constitution of 1879 anti-Chinese and anti-Railroad?
59. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Burlingame Treaty?