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TIMELINE

THE STATE OF MIND
• 1781: Founding of Los Angeles by 44 original settlers and four soldiers from Sonora, Mexico, 26 of them were of black
• 1821: Mexico gains independence from Spain
• 1846-1847: Mexican–American War (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
• 1848: Gold Rush. Los Angeles became known as the "Queen of the Cow Counties", supplying beef and food to the miners in
the north, attracting a flow of workers from all horizons.

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• 1850: Los Angeles was incorporated as an American city on April 4, 1850. Five months later, California was admitted into the
Union as the 31st state as a “free state” (non-slave state). Although the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo required the U.S. to grant
citizenship to the Indians of former Mexican territories, the U.S. did not get around to doing that for another 80 years.
• 1850: Foreign Minors Tax levying a $20 per month tax on each foreigner engaged in mining. A revolt resulted and it was
repealed in 1851. The Foreign Miners Tax Law was reinstated in 1852.
• 1855: Greaser Act: legalizing the arrest of those perceived as violating its anti-vagrancy statute, referring to individuals of
"Spanish and Indian blood”
• 1860-1865: Civil War
• 1865: African Americans begin heading to Los Angeles in significant numbers. The increasing dominance of Anglos in Los
Angeles, along with economic instability after the American Civil War, raised ethnic tensions in the city.
• 1871: Los Angeles earned nationwide notoriety when rampaging mobs killed some 20 Chinese residents during an event
known as the Chinese Massacre.
• 1876: SF-LA railroad link completed. More than 1,500 mostly Chinese laborers took part in the Newhall railroad tunnel
construction.
• 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law
implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating.
• 1885: Completion of the Santa Fe railroad line from Chicago to Los Angeles, flooding overlanders from lower Midwest and
South
• 1892: Oil discovery
• By 1923, the region was producing one-quarter of the world's total supply

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