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🐻California History
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322 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your California History exam

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1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1908 California Constitutional Convention
1933 San Joaquin Cotton Strike
1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike
2000-2001 energy crisis

A

AB 32: Global Warming Solutions Act
Absentee voting
Accessory dwelling unit
Affordable housing
Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities
African American migrants
Agricultural decline
Agricultural expansion
Alameda Naval Air Station
Alfred Kroeber
Algic Languages
American Expansionism
American Indian Movement
American Southwest
Anglo-American Settlers
Anti-german sentiment
Antitrust legislation
Asian American Communities
Asian American Movement
Asian Citrus Psyllid
Asian immigration trends
Assembly Bill 32
Athabaskan Languages
Aztlán

B

Basin and Range
Battle of Cerro Gordo
Battle of Palo Alto
Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Bear Flag Treaty
Belva Davis
Bilingual education programs
Border disputes
Briggs Initiative
Burnette G. Haskell

C

California Air Resources Board
California Air Resources Board (CARB) Standards
California Alien Land Law
California Aqueduct
California Assembly Bill 540
California Civil Rights Initiative
California Coast
California Coastal Act
California Coastal Commission
California Community Colleges
California Community Schools
California Constitution
California Constitution of 1849
California Constitutional Convention
California cuisine
California Desert Protection Act
California Dream Act
California Energy Commission
California Environmental Quality Act
California Fair Pay Act
California Farm Bureau Federation
California Farm Labor Movement
California Federation of Labor
California folk music
California Global Warming Solutions Act
California Gold Rush Migration
California Labor Code
California Labor Federation
California State Water Project
California Supreme Court
California Trail
California Water Wars
California Welfare Reform Act
California Wildfires
California's minimum wage law for women and children
California's multiculturalism