1. For thousands of years, Native Californians, before the Spanish arrived, lived as close to an earthly paradise as possible. Explain the adage of the adage. ( Ch. 2) I watched the video. I skipped this because I saw that
Compare and contrast the lives of the mission Indians with those of the wealthy Californios. How did secularization of the missions hurt the Natives, but helped the Californios? ( Ch. 8. The lives of the mission Indians and the wealthy Californians were quite different in many ways. The mission: Indians were forced to work and live in conditions that we can’t live in. Part of the Indian Mission deals is that they were supposed to be given lands to work on the lands.Some …show more content…
In 1841, they got rid of it, to John A. Sutter. Richard Henry Dana’s quote, “In the hands of an enterprising people, what a land this might be” means to the wealthy Californians. Because there is no industry in California, all the cow hides, all the tallow get shipped back east where they have industries.And they are able to make clothes, and other things, and also they can sell them, and they can start their business. They said that the Californians are not doing anything with it, but we can use the advance and we can use it, and make money out of it. Richard saw that we could do something with it. It means that if the land was in people who could do something with the land, the land might be something different than it is when it is in the Californians hands. After the book mouth gets back east, it puts pressure on, and Americans begin to desire California. And this makes for coveting California, San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Bay is really important because it is your port to the east, to the Pacific, to the Far East. So you have the seamen coming over that are coming slowly, but you also have American mountain men coming in over the land