The Elusive Eden

Chapter Twenty

1. How did the population center of California change by the 1930s?
2. When was the Owens Valley aqueduct extension the Mono Lake watershed completed?
3. Where is the Imperial Valley?
4. What is the Salton Sink?
5. What were Charles Rockwood and the California Development Company?
6. What was the Alamo River diversion?
7. What problem did the California Development Company encounter?
8. What was the connection between the Imperial Irrigation District and the Southern Pacific?
9. Where is Boulder Canyon?
10. Who were Phil Swing and Arthur Powell Davis?
11. What and were are the Boulder Canyon project and the All-American Canal?
12. Why was federal intervention needed to negotiate the Boulder Canyon Project Act? What resource was at stake?
13. Who was Herbert Hoover?
14. What is Parker Dam?
15. What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation funding?
16. How were the Los Angeles Bureau of Light and Southern California Edison affected by the results of the Boulder Canyon Project Act?
17. How did the Automobile in general and the model T affect the suburbs in southern California?
18. What is a decentralized city? What statistics qualified Los Angeles to be very decentralized?
19. What caused the death of the “Red Cars?”
20. Who was Henry Edwards Huntington?
21. What was the significance of the The Milestone Motel?
22. Why was high-gravity crude particularly suited to California?
23. What was located between Huntington Beach and Kettleman Hills?
24. What was the importance of the oil industry in California in the 1920s?
25. Who were William Fox, Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayor and Marcus Loew?
26. What was Thomas Edison’s relationship to the movie industry?
27. What were “Nickelodeon?”
28. What were Paramount, Fox, MGM, Universal, Warner Brothers and Columbia?
29. How many companies were making movies in California before World War I?
30. Who was Will H. Hays?
31. What was The Jazz Singe?
32. Who was Edward F. Beale?
33. What is the Tejon Ranch Company?
34. What is CalPack?
35. Who was Joseph DiGiorgio?
36. What is the California Fruit Growers Exchange?
37. What do Japanese, Mexican and Filipino immigrants to California have in common?
38. What was the Immigration Act of 1924?
39. What was the Webb Lien Law Act?
40. Who was Amadeo P. Giannini?
41. What was the importance of Security Pacific Bank?
42. What important other important industries came to California in the 1920s?
43. Why did the influence of organized labor decline in California and in particular in the souther region in the 1920s?
44. What is the Theosophical Society?
45. What is the Self-Realization Fellowship?
46. What was the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act?
47. What was the Harris Act and the California Anti-Saloon League?
48. How did Prohibition affect California? How was this different between the north and south?
49. What was the connection between the “Gentlemen’s Agreement, ” the Webb Act and the Immigration Act?
50. What was the connection between the Klan Revival, nativist sentiments and Prohibition?