In addition, the early political culture studies described the political culture of many Third World nations that supposedly lacked these civic traits (Pye and Verba 1965; Almond and Coleman 1960; Lerner 1958). These scholars maintained that many people in these nations were unaware and uninvolved in politics.
According to the Holdridge life zones system of bioclimatic classification Sacramento, California is situated in or near the warm temperate dry forest biome. The mean temperature is 16 degrees Celsius (60.8 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.
Sacramento was founded in 1839 by John Sutter, an immigrant from Switzerland who established a stockade and trading colony known as Sutter's Fort. After gold was discovered in the region in 1848, the town's name was changed to Sacramento, after the Sacramento River. It was the second incorporated city in California. Perhaps no other city was as essential to the gold and land rushes of the 1850's as Sacramento. Thousands of settlers descended upon the region, after traveling the 2,000 mile long California Trail, in the hopes of finding fortune in the gold mines.