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the population of California grew rapidly

The Catholic Church (which was still intertwined with the government of Spain) wished to increase its grasp by converting new cultures into their faith. The Franciscans who established the California missions believed that they could find salvation through converting nonbelievers, and that hard labor and even pain would produce the humility necessary for Native Americans to save their souls and to become good Spanish citizens.

The militarization of the missions would help ensure that British, French, and Russian competition would remain to the north and east. Government officials also fortified Monterey and San Diego to create safe ports used to resupply their galleons coming to and from Asian trade destinations.

Before European contact, they played stick games, kids had games, women like the gambling game of walnut dice. Kids tied a string around a rock, threw it in a river or deep pond to see who would first retrieve it. There were games to develop hunting skills such as throwing a stick through hoops. Little girls played with dolls made from natural resources. Today, you still can find the stick games at some gatherings and pow wows. You can also find some that involved gambling and guessing.

LOTS of Americans were drawn to the gold fields due to the fantastic (sometimes TRUE) claims of those who wrote letters home, posted articles in the newspapers of the day, or passed the word through maritime channels.

Yes, The Battle of Piacho Pass, and had several companies of Cavalry fighting with the Massachusetts Cavalry. While a few Americans might know that shipments of gold from California helped keep the Union solvent during the Civil War, almost no one know that California had more volunteers per capita in the Union Army than any other state. Nor is it generally known that by war's end California volunteers in the West occupied more territory than did the Union Army in the east. Nearly 17,000 Californians enlisted to fight. Most of these men were keep busy in the West, but several companies of California volunteers saw action in the East as the California One Hundred or later the California Cavalry Battalion. These volunteers served with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry and fought in 31 engagements, many of them in the Shenandoah Valley. Other California volunteers served with distinction in New York and Pennsylvania regiments. Eward Baker is but one example. A noted orator and early California Republican, Baker formed the 1st California Regiment. Baker died while leading the regiment in a charge across an open field in the battle of Ball's Bluff in October 1861 and the regiment was then claimed by Pennsylvania and renamed the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

The United States gained the land of California as part of the Mexican Cession after the Mexican-American war. After the United States acquired the land, many immigrants traveled here for work, including building railroads and mining. Towards the Civil War, California was looking to be admitted into the Union as a free state. The South did not like this idea, since it would upset the balance of power between free states and slave states in Congress. The Southern opposition was ignored, and California became a state as a provision in the Compromise of 1850.

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I think that the major event in California is when The gold rush appear and when the

The Spanish conquistidors were the first people to reach California. They reached the state in the 16th century.

The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. News of the discovery soon spread, resulting in some 300,000 men, women, and children coming to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately 150,000 arrived by sea while the remaining 150,000 arrived by land.

In March, 1848, Samuel Brannan, a newspaper publisher, strode through the streets of San Francisco, holding aloft a vial of gold, shouting "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" With the news of gold, many families trying their luck at Californian farming decided to go for the gold, becoming some of California's first miners.

On August 19, 1848, the New York Herald was the first major newspaper on the East Coast to report that there was a gold rush in California; on December 5, President James Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in an address to Congress. Soon, waves of immigrants from around the world, later called the "forty-niners," invaded the Gold Country of California or "Mother Lode

The early gold-seekers, called "forty-niners," traveled to California by sailing boat and in covered wagons across the continent, often facing substantial hardships on the trip. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. San Francisco grew from a small settlement to a boomtown, and roads, churches, schools and other towns were built throughout California. A system of laws and a government were created, leading to the admission of California as a free state in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850.

New methods of transportation developed as steamships came into regular service and railroads were built. The business of agriculture, California's next major growth field, was started on a wide scale throughout the state. However, the Gold Rush also had negative effects: Native Americans were attacked and pushed off traditional lands, and gold mining caused environmental harm.

California was part of mexico in the 1840's

The gold rush began at Sutter's Mill in Colima, CA. John Marshall discovered gold in the traces of the mill in 1848. Once the gold was discovered the rush was on. A newspaper headline stated "Eureka, Gold Found". The average pay was about 10.00 a month, but a man could make 50.00 a day if he found gold. Within months over 10,000 a day were coming into the area any way they could. Sutter lost in the gold rush. He lost his fortune , mill, and ended up a broke unhappy man. By 1850 CA became a state on Sept. 9, 1850.

The U.S. Presidents from California were Herbert Hoover and Ronald Reagan.

Former President Richard Nixon ran as a candidate from California but lost that election. Before winning the presidency he had moved to New York.

These are called "missions" because of the "mission-like" way they did things.

When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, all the territories it possessed included Mexico, most of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica) as well as today's US States of California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

So basically, New Mexico was part of Mexico, until the Mexican-America war

The address of the Marin Museum Of The American Indian is: 2200 Novato Blvd, Novato, CA 94947-2079

Mission San Luis Rey is the 18th mission in the Mission chain

When and why the first settlement in California was established is something that will forever remain unknown. It was most likely created by migrants from Asia (or there close descendants) who came across during the most recent Ice Age.

California officially became a state in 1850. That means that as of 2014 the state of California is 164 years old.

Mission San José was officially founded by Father Fermin Lasuen on June 11, 1797. The mission originally housed the new Franciscan priests. Over time, the mission came to house several Native American tribes: Bay Miwok, Coast Miwok, Lake Miwok, Patwin, Tamyen, Yokuts, and Costeno. During the Rancho Period (1834-1849) the Native people fled the mission lands. The mission buildings fell into decay and disrepair and the property was sold (some pioneer families of this land include the Livermore, Peralta, and Alviso families). The mission buildings were eventually turned into a saloon and a hotel and the town of Mission San José was founded (now a district of the city of Fremont, CA). At this point, the only residence of the mission was in the church itself: the priests quarters.