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Fourth Grade Social Studies |
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Atlas |
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This is an interactive California map which shows history, climate, geography, exploration, transportation, and physical geography. Can you see how the amount of rain compares to the population density? |
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California Government |
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At this site take a virtual tour of the capitol, learn about its history, meet famous people, and use its multimedia library. |
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California State Assembly Kid's Stuff This is a guide to what goes on in the California Assembly |
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California Missions |
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Photo Gallery Vintage Postcards Postcards of each of the California Missions from the collection of Ella and Harry Nuce. |
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California Mission Study Association This page contains links to all of the California Missions. |
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Search primary source photographs of the missions. Look up your mission by clicking on Browse A-Z on the left side of the page. Then search for your mission by name. |
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General Source |
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This is outstanding source for the history of California. There are lots of pictures, fairly easy text, and it is printable. Please ask the librarian before printing more than two pages. |
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This virtual guidebook site has a short description and wide angle pictures of a wealth of key sites. This site includes lots of photos of San Francisco, the Bay area as well as the rest of California. You might even look at locations around the United States. |
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Images of the California Environment Photographs of Agriculture, Energy, Forestry, Geography, Habitat Restoration, Mining, Native Americans, Natural Vegetation, Open Space, Parks, and Wilderness, Pollution and Solid Waste, Urban Environment, Water Resources, and much more. |
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Native Californians |
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Map of Native California Languages and Tribes This map shows the traditional territory of all Native California tribes. |
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This has brief descriptions about each of the tribes. It describes their diet, homes and houses, and location. |
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Topanga Online: The Turtle Story This site retells the story the Gabrielino Indians told to explain the cause of earthquakes and how California was made. |
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This is an outstanding resource on the Miwok, Chumash, Yurok, Maidu, Mohave, and Yokuts tribes. |
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This comprehensive web museum provides an overview of the land and people of the Mojave Desert from pre-historic times until today. Learn about the Native Peoples, explorers, miners and later settlers. Explore the geography and see how people have interacted with the fragile desert environment. |
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Primary Sources Including Photographs |
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This site contains thousands of photographs, letters, and other primary source documents about California History. |
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U.S. Government |
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This site will help you with U.S. symbols. |
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Gold Rush |
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See inside the rooms of Sutter's Fort as you study about the Gold Rush |
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The collection is easy to search and a great source of primary documents on early California history. Includes a concise overview of early California history. This site has great stories of the gold rush. |
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California History: The Gold Rush This site contains important information about the California Gold Rush. The descriptions of the mining camps is excellent. |
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California's Untold Stories: The Gold Rush This site has awesome pictures and background information from the Oakland Museum Gold Rush exhibit. It will certainly grab the attention of anyone with the slightest interest in the topic. |
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Gold Rush: An American Experience This PBS site is a great source for pictures, maps, and text about the California Gold Rush made for kids. |
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1849 Goldrush Exhibit: San Francisco Virtual Museum An outstanding collection of letters about the California Gold rush. Click on 1849 Gold Rush in the exhibit pull down menu at the right of the opening page. |
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Legacies of the Gold Rush: Of Dreams and Dirt This is an easy reading site about different facets of the gold rush. |
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An overview of the treatment of Chinese miners during the California Gold Rush. |
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Ranchero Days |
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This brief section form the pbs Gold Rush website gives a readable description of the Californios, defined as Spanish-speaking people who had come from Mexico or Spain to settle in California. |
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Huge cattle ranches, or ranchos, emerged as the dominant institutions of Mexican California after Mexican Independence in 1821. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers of the great changes that would sweep California during the Mexican American War of 1846-1848. |
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A short, but informative article about life in California under Mexican rule. |
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Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara Describes how the city of Santa Barbara celebrates its Mexican roots with the Old Spanish Days Fiesta every year in August. |
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A very clearly written article about the rancho days in the mid 1800s of California. |
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Tells about the time of the California Rancheros. |
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Along with the Spain's religious plan of establishing missions and military plan of founding presidios, there was the civil plan of establishing farming communities - ranchos and pueblos - in California. |
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1821-1847: Missions, Ranchos, and the Mexican War for Independence An overview of California History from the decline of the Missions through the ranchero period to the Independence of Mexico. |
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The Grandest Wedding by Michael Redmon An account of a 1836 wedding that took place on a ranchero in California. It is beautifully described. |
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California on the Eve: Californios A clear description of life on a California rancho. |
Update August 27, 2009