Notes on "California"

Contents

"California"

1. The Golden State
2. The Gold Rush
3. San Francisco
4. Parks
5. Highway1
6. Los Angels
7. The desert
8. San Diego
9. California

Chapter 2: The gold rush

1850: America made California an American state
1848: thirty-year-old James Wilson saw something bright and yellow in a river
By 1852: there were more than 100,000 prospectors in California
 By the middle of the 1850s: it was getting more and more difficult to find gold
1860s: people discovered something new is the ground
1869: workers finished building the first rail way

Chapter 6: Los Angeles

*There are nearly nine million people living
*more than 10,000 square kilometers in size
*Olvera street
*China town
*American film makers first came to Los Angels
*some of the film studios
*Hollywood
Rodeo Drive
* Dodger Stadium
*Santa Monica and Venice beach

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