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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II in the American West
The Great Depression and World War II, far and away the worst economic calamity and the...
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History Times: A Nation of Immigrants
Coming to the Land of Opportunity
Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have left their homelands for a...
Glossary Term – Event
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
A major earthquake—later estimated to be between 7.7 and 7.9 on the Richter scale—struck San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. The devastation grew as broken gas lines caused widespread fires and much of the city was destroyed. As many as 3,000 people were killed, and more than half of the survivors found themselves homeless.
Glossary Term – Event
Occupation of Alcatraz
On November 29, 1969, a group of American Indians sailed to Alcatraz, the island in San Francisco Bay that formerly housed a federal prison. Led by Russell Means, they intended to occupy Alcatraz to protest the government’s treatment of Native peoples. The protestors demanded the return of the island to American Indians. They also sought funding for its development and maintenance. The government refused and, after nineteen months, removed the protestors from the island on June 11, 1971.
Glossary Term – Event
Second assassination attempt on Gerald Ford
In San Francisco, Gerald Ford survived his second assassination attempt in less than a month when Sara Jane Moore fired one shot that missed the president.
Glossary Term – Person
Mamie Tape
Born in San Francisco, Mamie Tape was the daughter of two Chinese immigrants who tried to enroll eight-year-old Mamie in San Francisco’s public Spring Valley School in 1884. When Mamie was turned away from the school, her parents sued the city for violating an 1880 law that guaranteed “all children . . . residing in the district” admission to public schools. A Superior Court judge ruled that “To deny a child, born of Chinese parents in this State, entrance to the public schools would be a violation of the law of the State and the...
Glossary Term – Place
Angel Island
Located in San Francisco Bay and called the “Ellis Island of the West,” Angel Island was a check point and detention center for immigrants in the early twentieth century. Asian and European immigrants were processed at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910 and 1940, and an estimated 300,000 were detained there. The detainees were primarily Chinese, and while some were eventually permitted to enter the United States, many more were deported.
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John Mosby on the Silver Issue, 1895
