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4.2.5 Spanish and Mexican California

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for thousands of years the land that we know as California was home only to California Indians speed and can I see the area and later Mexico governed it what was life like during these time periods how did people live in California under the rules of Spain and Mexico 1700 when the Spanish arrived California they set up missions Spanish thought that if California Indians believed in Catholicism they would support Spain's Colony although some California Indians chose to move to the missions many were forced the missions of California Indians had specific jobs to do jobs that was very important to California's economy and economy is the system of producing and consuming Goods in a country state or local area voice controlled nearly every aspect of life at the missions at dawn a large bell rang to announce Services were about to begin well adults went to work plow planting making bricks raising Livestock in preparing for young children spend the day learning the Spanish language and the Catholic religion the California Indians did not conform to mission life they were often punished videos of forts were built by the Spanish to protect the land they occupied to occupy is to take control of a place there were presidio's built in the emissions at the sites of present-day San Francisco Monterey Santa Barbara San Diego the Mission Produce much of the food needed by the soldiers who lived at the presidio's the Spanish also set up web Lowe's Spanish word for villages overtime the first to Pueblo see eventually. wanted to large cities San Jose and Los Angeles but in 1790 will be 139 people lived in the Pueblo of Los Angeles 1821 Mexico became independent from Spain making California a part of Mexico The Mexican government gave Mexican citizens who wanted to live in California land grants a land grant given by a government this was supposed to Mexicans to move to California and set up Farms many settlers built conscience or large areas of land where crops are grown and horses cattle sheep and pigs are raised Vaccaro's took care of the land in avocado is a cowboy many of the other people who worked on ranches for California Indian tribe in admissions eventually in the cattle hide and Tallow they produced replace the missions as the center of California's economy they provided leather goods for people all over the world today while many of California's missions Pueblo sand branches have developed into busy cities in Akron centers many cities in California have Spanish names Adobe still used to build houses and many of the earliest missions still stand old reminders that you don't have to look far to find California Spanish and Mexican past

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