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The mission in San Gabriel was built in the southern part of California. The missions were important to the local communities. Ygancio Palomares built his home to hold masses in his living room
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California now under control of the Mexican government, opened up petitions for land grants. By 1828, the rules for establishing land grants were codified in the Mexican Reglamento (Regulation). The acts broke the large land holding of the missions and paved the way for attract more settlers to California by making land grants easier to obtain. The number of Mexican land grants greatly increased after the secularization of the missions in 1834. Although the original inten
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Don Ygnacio Palomares and his friend Ricardo Vejar petitioned Governor Alvarado to grant them land in Pomona or "Rancho San Jose". The governor granted them both 15,000 acres of land each
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War. The treaty added 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including parts of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas.
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Ygnacio Palomares built one of the first houses in Pomona in 1854. He made his house out of adobe. The house was also called casa de madera because of its wooden roof.
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The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the propriety of its restoration constitute the subject of what I am about to say.
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Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy stone stop their rivalry and join together to form the National American Women's Suffrage Association.
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Instruction began in a rented house in Pomona until they moved to an unfinished hotel in nearby Claremont, but the name remained.
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The Dawes Act was enacted regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma.
Prior years, Native Americans became US citizens by:
1. Treaty provision (as with the Mississippi Choctaw)
2. Registration and land allotment under the Dawes Act
3. Issuance of Patent in Fee Simple
4. Adopting Habits of Civilized Life
5. Minor Children
6. Citizenship by Birth
7. Becoming Soldiers and Sailors in the U.S. Armed Forces
8. Marriage to a US citizen
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The National Geographic Society began as a club for an elite group of academics and wealthy patrons interested in travel.
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It's purpose was to interest women in literature, art, and science.
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Ricardo Vejar sells Pomona 43 acres of his land to develop the Los Angeles County Fair. Opens with 100,000 people in attendance. the
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Germany, Italy and Japan became allies during World War II.Germany wants to take over continental Europe; Italian over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese over East Asia and the Pacific
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The Doolittle Raid was the first air raid by the United States to strike a Japanese home island (Honshū) during World War II.
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It was taken over by the U.S. Army and turned into a motor base. A community of 5,428 Japanese-Americans was housed there.
1943-The army used the grounds as a desert training center.
1944-The Ordnance Command shop was established on the grounds.
1945-The grounds were used as a German and Italian prisoner of war camp.
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Social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights.
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The school was a large fire that started in the girls bathroom by a cigarette which left 1500 students withouts schooling for three weeks and impacted the Senior class.
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