Geography 417

Domain 3: California History

3.1 The Pre-Columbian Period through the Gold Rush.

• Candidates for Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials identify the impact of California’s physical geography on its history.
• They describe the geography, economic activities, folklore and religion of California’s American Indian peoples.
• They discuss the impact of Spanish exploration and colonization, including the mission system and its influence on the development of the agricultural economy of early California.
• They describe Mexican rule in California.
• They state the causes of the war between Mexico and the United States and its consequences for California.
• They describe the discovery of gold and its cultural, social, political and economic effects in California, including its impact on American Indians and Mexican nationals.

3.2 Economic, Political, and Cultural Development Since the 1850’s.

• Candidates for Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials identify key principles of the California Constitution, including the Progressive-era reforms of initiative, referendum and recall, and they recognize similarities and differences between it and the U. S. Constitution.
• They identify patterns of immigration to California, including the Dust Bowl migration, and discuss their impact on the cultural, economic, social and political development of the state.
• They identify the effects of federal and state law on the legal status of immigrants.
• They describe historical and contemporary perspectives on cultural diversity in the United States and in California.
• Candidates understand the development and identify the locations of California’s major economic activities: mining, large-scale agriculture, entertainment, recreation, aerospace, electronics and international trade.
• They identify factors leading to the development of California’s water delivery system, and describe its relationship to California geography.

Part II: Subject Matter Skills and Abilities

Applicable to the Content Domains in History and Social Science Candidates for Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials

• utilize chronological and spatial thinking.
• They construct and interpret timelines, tables, graphs, maps and charts.
• They locate places based on ordinal directions, latitude and longitude, the equator, prime meridian, the tropics, the hemispheres, time zones and the international dateline.
• They identify and interpret major geographical features of the earth’s surface including continents and other large landmasses, mountain ranges, forested areas, grasslands, deserts and major bodies of water and rivers.
• They describe the cultural, historical, economic and political characteristics of world regions, including human features of the regions such as population,
  land use patterns and settlement patterns.
• Candidates for Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials analyze, interpret and evaluate research evidence in history and the social sciences.
• They interpret primary and secondary sources, including written documents, narratives, photographs, art and artifacts revealed through archeology.
• In relation to confirmed research evidence they assess textbooks and contrast differing points of view on historic and current events.
  In the interpretation of historical and current events, candidates identify, explain and discuss multiple causes and effects.
• They recognize the differing ramifications of historical and current events for people of varying ethnic, racial, socio-economic, cultural and gender backgrounds.
• Candidates draw on and apply concepts from history and other social studies including political science and government, geography, economics, anthropology, and sociology.
• They explain concepts related to human, government and political institutions, including power and authority, monarchy, totalitarianism, republicanism, democracy, limited government and the roles and responsibilities of citizenship.
• They draw on and apply basic economic concepts. They discuss basic concepts of sociology related to individuals, interpersonal relationships and institutions, including family and community; and concepts related to social structure, including occupation, socio-economic class, ethnicity and gender.
• Candidates explain major concepts of philosophy (including concepts of religion and other belief systems) and their impact on history and society.
• They explain basic concepts of demography including factors associated with human migration.
• They discuss basic concepts of anthropology including the nature and content of culture, and they understand the historical and cultural development of human society, including hunting and gathering, nomadic pastoralism, domestication of plants and animals, and the creation and evolution of human settlements and cities.