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Students explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power, tracing the transformation of the California economy and its political and cultural development since the 1850s.

Water and Growth

Why was water important to the growth of California? Download Primary Source Set: Water and Growth

This inquiry set can be used to explore how water has been a valuable and exploited, and eventually highly-managed, natural resource in the state of California.

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