The Elusive Eden Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Seventeen
The Beginning of Modern California

1. What was La Ciudad del Río y Valle de La Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciúncula?
2. What was the population of Los Angeles in 1846?
3. What does the phrase, “way station of the Argonauts” refer to?
4. Who settled in San Bernardino?
5. Who was Elias J. Baldwin?
6. Who was John Downey?
7. Who was Phineas Banning?
8. What was the importance of Ranco Domínguez?
9. Rancho?
10. What was the population of Los Angeles and San Diego in 1870?
11. What was the struggle involving Wilmington and San Diego about?
12. What was the connection between the Civil War and the Pacific Railway Act?
13. Why did the Southern Pacific build track to Los Angeles Los Angeles in 1871?
14. What was the importance of Citrus production?
15. What was the Central Pacific Land Office and what was its significance?
16. What was the “Boom of the 80s?”
17. What was the importance of the Santa Fe to southern California after1885?
18. How did the Los Angeles population change between 1890 and 1910? Why?
19. Who was E. L. Drake?
20. How was southern California influensed by Pennsylvania?
21. What did Phineas Banning do in Wilmington?
22. Who were Lyman Stewart and Wallace Hardison?
23. How were farming and oranges connected to oil?
24. Who was Thomas Bard?
25. Who was Edward L. Doheny
26. What was the Pan American Oil Company?
27. What are the La Brea Tar Bits?
28. What is asphaltum?
29. What were Granger Laws?
30. What was Munn v. Illinois?
31. What was the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Sherman Anti-Trust? When were they passed?
32. How was the 1879 California constitution connected to corporations?
33. Who were Stephen M. White and Stephen J. Field?
34. What is the Fourteenth Amendment and what does it have to do with corporations and regulation?
35. What was the importance of the 1884 Democratic Convention? Where was it held?
36. What did Senate elections, income tax and corporate regulation all have in common in the 1890s?
37. What was the connection between Stephen M. White and Leland Stanford? What did each of these men represent?
38. What was the Railroad Reassessment Act of 1893?
39. What was the Free Harbor fight? How was Phineas Banning involved?
40. Why did the Wilmington area need a breakwater?
41. What did the Army Corps of Engineers recommend in 1892?
42. How was C. P. Huntington connected to the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1896?
43. What was the Funding Bill?
44. What was the Agrarian Revolt?
45. What was the American Federation of Labor?
46. Who was Eugene Debs?
47. What were the Patrons of Husbandry, the National Farmers Alliance and the Peoples Party?
48. What is Populism?
49. What was Progress and Poverty?
50. What was Henry George Looking Backward?
51. What were “Nationalist“ clubs?
52. What was the California Farmer’s Alliance and Industrial Union?
53. What was 1890 the People’s Party of California?
54. What was the Omaha Platform?
55. Who were James B. Weaver and William Jennings Bryan?
56. What was Progressivism?
57. What was the Consolidation Act?
58. Who was William Avord?
59. What was the Merchant’s Association?
60. Who was James Duval Phelan?
61. What measures were taken to enable reformers to re-charter San Francisco in 1893?
62. Who was Dr. John Randolph Haynes and the Direct Legislation League?
63. What was the Good Government League and the National Municipal League?
64. When was Los Angeles re-chartered during the Progressive era?
65. What was the Australian ballot, the recall, the referendum and the initiative?
66. What was Kaweah?
67. Who was Anna Morrison Reed?