4th Grade Outline

CALIFORNIA HISTORY


STATION #1 - WHO WAS HERE AND WHO CAME

  1. CHUMASH INDIANS
      2. a. Life pre-Columbus b. Tomol construction c. Seamanship/trade
  2. EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS
      3. a. Columbus finds new world – 1492 b. Balboa finds Pacific Ocean – 1513 c. Cabrillo explores California – 1542-43 d. Drake explores California for England – 1579 e. Portola finds San Francisco Bay - 1770
STATION #2 – CALIFORNIA’S EARLY ECONOMY

  1. EARLY PRODUCTS
      2. a. Cattle hides – manufactured leather goods b. Cattle tallow – candles c. Lumber
  2. GOLD RUSH
      3. a. Discovery b. Routes to California c. Clipper ships d. Pacific shipping industry
STATION #3 – ALL ABOUT WHALES

  1. WHALES
      2. a. Types/sizes b. Migration c. International Whaling Commission d. Migration – Alaska to Baja
  2. CALIFORNIA WHALING
      3. a. Chumash – beached for food b. Shore whaling
STATION #4 – CALIFORNIA PORTS

  1. FOUR MAJOR PORTS (Man-made vs natural)
      2. a. San Francisco - export gold, grain, lumber b. San Diego – export fishing c. Los Angeles/Long Beach – export furs; container ships
  2. PORT OF HUENEME
      3. a. Bard’s Wharf – export farm products; import lumber b. Railroad in Oxnard c. Navy takeover in 1942 d. Navy allows commercial use e. Today import cars and bananas; export lemons