Oh, California, Chp.8
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- experiment
- Test developed to understand how something works, moves, or grows.
- Luther Tibbets
- Farmer who was the first to farm the naval orange trees from Brazil. They were so popular the Tibbets had to place barbed wire around them to keep the thieves.
- competition
- A business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
- refrigeration cars
- In 1888, box cars with refrigeration helped food stay fresh and meet the demands of a growing California population.
- Starvation Valley Mussel Slough
- A group of farmers who worked together so they could overcome some of the harsh weather conditions of the Central Valley.
- 1850s most common crop
- Wheat because it was easy to grow on flat rich soil and dried out in the warm dry California summers
- levee
- A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea.
- migrant laborer
- Traveling farmers who would gather crops ready for harvesting .When one job was finished ,they would move to another farm to harvest again.
- How many kinds of fruits and vegetables grow in California
- Over two hundred not including the many varities.
- boom
- A period of fast growth.
- tenant
- Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else.
- industry
- The organized action of making of goods and services for sale, a group of businesses that produce a similar product or provide a similar service.
- Who owned a great portion of land (millions of acres) and was eager to sell it?
- The railroad companies did! Their strategy was to have many people move to California and become future railroad customers.
- Starvation Valley
- Tulare Basin in the Central Valley. Named so because of the hardships of floods, frost, sandstorms and droughts.
- The Santa Fe
- The second railroad system that offered service in California. It helped make fares cheaper because it developed competition between the two railroads.
- production
- The total amount grown or made
- irrigation
- To supply land with water by means of ditches or channels
- produce
- Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market.