Page 31 - Curriculum Visions Dynamic Book

Chinese immigrants to America. Many first came to San Francisco, which was known
as “Dai Fow” (The Big City) and some came eventually to Sacramento (then the second- largest city in California), known as “Yee Fow” (Second City).
As the new state of California looked
for a capital, it began in San Jose, and then moved temporarily to Sacramento. The city then made a bid for it to be the permanent capital, and that was agreed in 1854. Building the California State Capitol began in 1860 and took fourteen years.
The Pony Express was brought to Sacramento in 1860. It lasted just eighteen months before it was replaced by the transcontinental telegraph. Further flooding caused the whole riverside area of the city
to be raised, houses and all. This resulted in turning the first floors of many buildings at the time into basements and making second floors into new main floors. Today, this system of 19th-century basements remains and is called the Sacramento Underground.
The First Transcontinental Railroad began in Sacramento.
Soon refrigeration was invented, so that fruit could be sent from California to the eastern cities. Wheat was replaced by irrigated fruit farms.
The great surge in immigrants from Europe saw some of them arrive in Sacramento in the last part of the 19th century.
Since then, except for the depression years of the 1930s, Sacramento has continued to grow rapidly.
31