California Geography - Study Guide 3

This is a good overview of the exam. But there may be more questions that are not here because the test bank changes from time to time to accommodate new films, articles, or slideshow lectures, for example.

Know early explorers, such as Jedediah Smith, Joseph Walker, Kit Carson, John Fremont, John Bidwell and John Sutter
Know the Bear Flag Revolt.
The Land Act of 1851 was intended to do what?
From gold mining film and lecture showing and writing about:
- What percentage of California citizens where foreign born during the Gold Rush days?
- What was the “49er” like? (gender, age, background)
- Malakoff Diggins is an example of?
  - What substance (toxic) element was used to get the tiny particles of gold?
- Toxic sediments (rivers loaded with mercury) flush down Northern California rivers as far as ...

Who were the Big Four?
Who were Crocker's Pets?

Southern Pacific RR owned what magazine?
The RR was described as what animal?
When were the fare wars and how much did they charge during that year?
In 1870, California grew what crop and where?
What was the Black Gold Rush, when, and what was it initially used for (it's not what you think)?
Significant amounts of off-shore drilling is found where in California?
Who were the movie moguls? (In other words, what was their ancestry / ethnic background?)
Who were the first movie stars, lke the most popular, prior to the "talkies"?
Where were the 1st motion pictures shot in California? Where were they then established (everyone knows this answer)?
During the WWII era, what were the two (2) main industries in So. California and San Francisco Bay area?
So called “surburbia” (massive tract homes) as we know it began in what era. What factors contributed to this trend?

Regarding Agricultural crops, commodities & products -- what is California’s number 1 crop, according to recent farm statistics?
Regarding Agricultural crops, commodities & products -- What is California’s number 1 export crop, according to recent statistics?
California is the sole producer (99%) of what crops?
What is the most important factor in growing quality wine grapes?
Where do you find quality (varietal grapes) and where are production grapes (jug and fortified wines) grown?
Where do we grow cotton in California?
Where do we grow rice in California? Rice growing requires...
Where do we grow safflower in California and what is so special about it? Don't forget about irrigation too.
What crop is highly adaptive to our dry summers & Mediterranean climate?
Where do we grow alfalfa in California and what is relationship to dairies?
According to the lecture & notes, how have tomatoes changed to be harvested over the past 50 years, such as near Sacramento?
What agricultural activity is practice in nearly every county of California?

During the 1940s, African-Americans migrated to California mainly because?
Were these folks the largest number to migrate here?
What brought an elite group (African-Americans) to Oakland?
Who was the “Bracero” program aimed ?
What industries did the Italians work in San Francisco?
What group migrated to Rocklin to work in the quarries?
What group were classified as “alien enemies” during WWII?
What is the smallest ethnic group?
According to the population statistics, what group has migrated here the most? Second? From early 2000s to 2011 migrants were primary from?
From Asia, what group, like from what country (1995 statistics)?
What county has the largest migration?

Be familiar with movies and articles:

The West films, such as Episode 5 - Grandest Enterprise under God
Saving the Bay films
Clover Valley film
“Under water by 2100?...Risk of the rising sea,”
"Into Thin Air" - article about global warming

Note: most of the course packet articles are obsolete, so you don't have to read them except what's listed here.