What did we do with this info?
•Created six themed collections
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THE CHANGING STATE IN THE GOLD RUSH ERA (1848-1865)
1. Murder and Mayhem
2. Disasters
3.Everyday Life and People
4.Gold Mining and Its Environmental Impact
5.Growth of Cities
6.Diversity in the Changing State
Gold Rush Era
   Gold mining and its environmental impact
Diversity in the changing state
Murder and mayhem
Disasters [risks to come here]
People and everyday life
Growth of cities

Closing of the Frontier [1870-1900’s]
   Chinese Americans
Railroads
Native Americans
Promotion of parks; west

Emerging Industrial Order [1900 – 1930’s]
   Industrialization of the Workplace
Rise of New Technology and Its Impact on America
California’s Growing Ethnic Diversity
Popular Culture
Early Advertising

Great Depression
   Hard Times
   San Francisco 1934 General Strike
   Help and a New Deal
   Dust Bowl Migration
   Regional Development: of Bridges, Dams and Power Plants

World War II
   "Women workers" or "Women enter wartime workforce/Labor"
"Life on the home front"
"Braceros" or "Mexican Immigration/The Bracero Program/Labor"
"Richmond shipyards" or "Workers at Richmond shipyards"
"Japanese American Relocation and Internment"
"Protest/Anti-War Sentiment"
"442nd Regimental Combat Team/Japanese American Soldiers"

Social Reform [1950’s-1960’s]
African Americans’ Struggle for Civil Rights
Watts: Profile of a Neighborhood
The Free Speech Movement
Struggles for Social Justice