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This 3 page paper considers California history from 1848 to the present, and asks if it embodies the American Dream. It argues that the dream is over for all but the very rich. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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nothing short of the Promised Land. But is it? This paper considers California history from 1848 to the present, and asks if it embodies the American Dream, and if it
ever really did. Discussion The Gold Rush in 1848 brought a flood of new people to California attracted by the promise of making a fortune. But California has always been
less "perfect" than it seems on the surface. While its important not to paint too bleak a picture, its also important to recognize that California is not the beautiful glossy
place Hollywood loves to show us on a regular basis. Some of the issues that California has experienced, and which can be seen as both positive and negative developments,
include the founding of the missions by Father Junipero Serra; the arrival of Chinese immigrants; migrant workers; and more recently, an anti-immigrant backlash, the building of the Triple Fence in
San Diego and soaring real estate prices (Chan and Olin, 1997). A brief look at each of these developments shows why they can be considered in different ways. Junipero Serra
is generally praised for founding the missions, but many historians tell us that the so-called "mission Indians" who came to live at the place he established were treated as little
better than slaves, and lost their autonomy. So the cost of bringing the "white mans" religion to the state was the loss of the indigenous peoples ways in many cases.
The Chinese and Japanese immigrants who came to California did so to find work and send money home; most notably, they worked on the railroads, which could not have been
built without them (Chan and Olin, 1997). But a backlash against them resulted in the enactment of laws to keep them out; the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 actually made
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