Analysis Of Making San Francisco American

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In Barbara Berlund’s Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, Berlund explains how San Francisco grew from a young settlement which grew rapidly thanks to in part of the California Gold Rush which took place in 1949. Of course with the growing of this small settlement came it’s conflicts and how it rised to where it stands present day. A primary factor which helped San Francisco flourish a ton was the influence from those who had power and chose what would happen throughout the city, for example the Big 4. Those who were wealthy did not make this city what it is today without the help of people who made up the middle class as well. Every establishment within this city set the social order as to how the inhabitants of San Francisco would go about their life in society. Depending on where white of middle and upper class treated the other races within this spectrum of diversity one could predict how difficult one’s life would be during …show more content…

He was taken to court by Marth in hope of getting a compensation for being raped, impregnated, and having a child. Though he had some influence with the power of his purse he managed to get her into an asylum and she was diagnosed as mentally unstable and he got away with rape simply because he had a higher social status. The big 4,consisted of a corrupt group of men that manipulated the political system and orders which favor outcomes that they were highly in favor of. Allowing Chinese to migrate to the San Francisco when the people of the city were highly opposed to that. Blacks who were recruited by the east and worked at a palace were offered good work conditions, received high wage, and were seen as high class within the black community and possibly higher social

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