HISTORY 142A Chapter Notes - Chapter article: Columbian Exchange, Hydraulic Mining, White Supremacy
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Sackman, nature and conquest: after the deluge of. 1:10 pm: in ca history, legend usually becomes fact. I feel like that"s pretty normal for history in general: essay talks about settlement in ca (taking over nature) and how environment changed because of ideas, economics, technology, and organisms. Gold rush brought the start of quite a lot of these changes. It wasn"t until after polk got elected that everyone really started saying "fifty- four forty or fight" manifest destiny. Justified taking ca help them escape mexican tyranny and inactive (torpidity) limiting their natural growth. Needed wilderness for them to tame but by 1846, ca wasn"t one. Already had missions, pueblos, presidios along coast + growing a bunch of crops + had all types of domesticated animals from europe because of spanish missionaries. Americans saw native americans as backwards/living in wilderness when they were people who transformed earth w/ labor.
