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9 pages in length. Both the Spanish and Mexican governments struggled to colonize and control California with the dual objective to establish a stable Hispanic society. The competitive nature of achieving such a goal brought with it a combination of factors that made it challenging at best for them to reach these objectives. Moreover, the social weaknesses they created here served to transform an entire culture of Native Americans into slave labor; those who survived the prevalence of foreign disease to which they had no natural immunities were slowly but surely forced to sell out their heritage in order to survive. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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competitive nature of achieving such a goal brought with it a combination of factors that made it challenging at best for them to reach these objectives. Moreover, the social
weaknesses they created here served to transform an entire culture of Native Americans into slave labor; those who survived the prevalence of foreign disease to which they had no natural
immunities were slowly but surely forced to sell out their heritage in order to survive.i "Spains colonization strategy of California was intended to follow the same pattern as in
Northern Mexico and in the American Southwest - through the establishment of missions, pueblos and presidios, each having a distinct function...but the natives who were brought within their compounds were
gradually decimated by foreign diseases to which they had no immunity. Thus the Franciscan friars were not able to deliver the expected large population of new Spanish citizens to
the Crown. The mission properties, following secularization by the Mexican government in the 1830s, were distributed to soldiers in lieu of wages and to Mexican citizens in return for
political favors. The Native Americans who remained were assimilated into the local society serving as laborers, household servants and vaqueros."ii II. THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL
Spanish and Mexican settlement of California ended up the same as so many other colonization attempts: the native Indian populations were ultimately uprooted from their homeland
and either relocated or slowly phased out of existence. That the Spanish and Mexican governments may have originally wanted to pursue California in both a stable and harmonious way
was not achieved by any stretch of the imagination, inasmuch as the presence of war, indigenous denial and brute force was employed as a means by which to attain their
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