STUDY QUESTIONS

CALIFORNIA:  AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY (8th Ed.)

CHAPTER 16  -  ECONOMIC GROWTH

1. What did the generous rainfalls in the crop year of 1866-67 lead to the discovery of for farmers in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys?
2. What was California's largest and most profitable agricultural commodity between the 1860s and 1893?
3. Why did the wheat market collapse in the depression of the 1890s and beyond?
4. What did Jean Louis Vignes bring from France to Los Angeles in the early 1830s?
5. What was the cooperative community at Anaheim best know for after its founding in 1857?
6. What problems did citrus farmers face in the marketing of their fruits that led them to form a cooperative marketing organization?  How successful were these organizations in achieving their goals?
7. What did critics denounce groups such as the Orange Growers Protective Union of Southern California and the California Fruit Growers' Exchange as practicing?
8. Who performed the physical labor for these growers?
9. What does the term "agribusiness" mean?
10. Which part of the state experienced the greatest growth after 1880?
11. What was the "health rush" to southern California before 1900?
12. What role did the Southern Pacific play in advertising southern California?
13. How did the rate war between the Santa Fe Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad after 1885 benefit southern California?
14. What was the result of the ad campaign to plaster Iowa with the slogan, "Oranges for Health - California for Wealth?"
15. How large did the Los Angeles metropolitan area grow between 1900 and 1920?
16. Why was the development of irrigation in California in the 19th century so slow?
17. What's the difference between riparian rights and prior appropriation?  How did these legal doctrines conflict with each other in California?
18. What were the provisions of the Wright Irrigation Act of 1887?  What had it accomplished by 1911?
19. What effect did the building of an electric railway line have on metropolitan areas?
20. How did promoters of these railway lines make money?
21. Who was the leading figure in the development of these interurban lines in southern California?
22. What were the "Big Red Cars?"

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