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Modern CA History
The Progressive Era• Early 1900s SF run by Ruef machine
• Progressives: A middle class reform movement
• 1911-1917 Governor Hiram Johnson
• Weaken party machines and SPR—for “direct democracy”—initiative, recall, and referenda
SF again influences national immigration policy
• 1905 San Francisco segregates schools regarding Japanese
• 1908 leads to “Gentleman’s Agreement”
Great Depression 1930-40
• 100,000s of dustbowl refugees migrate here• "California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi."
• Okie culture
1934 Governor’s race
• Former socialist and author of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, runs for office as a Democrat and New Dealer on EPIC platform
• Is smeared in first professional media campaign
Growing Radicalism of the Depression era
• unions organize and strike--previously the “Wobblies,” now the Communist Party among others
• Over 50 strikes of farm workers in 1933
Salinas strike of 1934-36
• Growers brought over Filipinos to work in fields after WWI and exclusion of Chinese and Japanese
• Growers split striking Filipino lettuce pickers from white shed workers
San Francisco General Strike 1934
• Strike shuts down shipping on West Coast
• Entire Bay Area is shut down for 3 day General Strike after police force picketing longshoremen to allow in “scabs”
Again, economic downturn leads to greater xenophobia
• 100,000s of Mexicans are pushed out or deported
• anti-Filipino riots break out, and they are “invited” to leave under the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935
WW II and greater military presence
• (Southern) CA becomes a center of US aerospace industry
• All filled with bases—many close at end of Cold War
Post-War into 1960s
• Population and economy boom
• Under Governors Earl Warren and Pat Brown pro-growth policies—schools, colleges, and highways.
Ronald Reagan 1966-73
• Clashes with counter-culture and UC
• Tries to cut size of state govt.
Jerry Brown 1974-79
• Supported civil liberties and civil rights and “appropriate technology”, but not the spending of his dad
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