tadhg - california

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FACTS ABOUT CALIFORNIA (CA)

Capital: Sacramento.

Cities: Sacramento, Los Angeles , San Diego , San

Francisco.

Population: 33,871,648

Size: 163,707 square miles.

It is also the 3rd largest State in the USA , and the 31st State.


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Main Rivers - Sacramento

River, Colorado River,San Joaquin River

Highest Point - Mt. Whitney,

14,495 feet (4,418 m)

above sea level

Lowest Point - Death Valley,

282 feet (86 m) below sea

level.


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FACTS CONTINUED

The home of Apple is Cupertino, CA

Main Industries include agriculture (raisins) oil, mining,

electronics (Apple), movies (Hollywood) and tourism

(Disney Land).

Its bordering states are Oregon, Nevada and Arizona.


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HISTORY

Around 1800 California was ruled by Mexico and was famous for

its beauty and natural resources.

As people enthused about California other people from different

parts of America and the rest of the world wanted to live there.

However, the only people that were given grants to live there

were the Mexicans.

On June the 10th there was a revolt between the new American

settlers and the Mexican army named the Bear Revolt and was

the beginning of the rebellion against the Mexicans. The US

army got involved, so began the Mexican American war.

The war ended on February the 2nd

1848.Gold was discovered in 1848 also, and so began the famous Gold

Rush


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GOLD RUSH

Once people heard about the gold, the population increased from

100,000 to almost 400,000 during the California gold rush, because

people wanted to become rich.

People travelled up to San Francisco, up the Sacramento River to the

Gold Fields.

The Gold Rush had a hugely damaging effect on the Native

Americans, who were driven from their native homes.


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CALIFORNIA & EARTH QUAKES

San Francisco and Los Angeles have both been built on

the San Andres fault line.This means that they are at risk of earth quakes. On average

there are 10,000 earth quakes a year along the fault line.

A fault line is where two of the earth plates meet and bump

off each other, causing the earth to quake

In 1906 San Francisco had a devastating earthquake when

3000 people died and 25000 people were left homeless.


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SAN FRANCISCO Golden Gate Bridge

Cable car

Home of;

1) Golden Gate Bridge.

2) Most notorious prison, Alcatraz, from whichthere was no escape! Located 1.5 miles off shore.

3) Last major city using manually operated Cable

car

4) Crooked Road- Lombard St (8 sharp turns)

Lombard St


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HOLLYWOOD

Other name, Tinsel Town, is a district of

LA.

Famous for movies making and its

stars

Hollywood Walk of Fame, where

famous people leave handprints orhave stars with their names on them.

Oscar ceremony held in Hollywood


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DISNEYLAND

Walt Disney was involved in

animation movies eg Snow white& the Seven Dwarfs, Mickey

Mouse movies.

He also wanted to create a place

where children and parents could

have fun together, so he came up

with the idea that is Disneyland.

As well as fantastic rides you can

also see how movies are made,

such as stunt scenes below

Disney took over Pixar

Animation which produced

great movies like Toy Story


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APPLE

On April the 1st 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the

Apple 1 computer and started Apple Computers. It was the firstsingle circuit board used in a computer.

The 1st home computer was the Apple Lisa.

Steve Wozniak was also a computer hacker!

Also the two Steves were best friends.

The inventions followed after this are:Apple Mackintosh

Apple Mac

PowerBook

IPhone

IPodIPod touch

I pad

Apple is based in Silicon Valley.


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SILICON VALLEY

Silicon valley is the home to many computing companies

such as Facebook, Microsoft , Adobe, Apple, IBM,Google, HP, Amazon, eBay and Yahoo.

It is called Silicon Valley because lots of different computerparts are made out of Silicon. Which is another word for

sand!


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