The Mission System | California History [ep.2]

After Alta California had been peacefully conquered in 1769, franciscan missionaries came to convert the indigenous population. They set up mission buildings all along the California foot path that came to be known as El Camino Real, or the king’s road. The first ones were in San Diego and Monterey, and they kept adding new ones year after year, eventually creating 21 with the last one finished 1823.
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references:

Hawgood, John. “The Pattern of Yankee Infiltration in Mexican Alta California.” Pacific Historical Review 27, no.1 (February 1958), 27-37.

Stenberg, Richard. “Polk and Fremont.” Pacific Historical Review 7, no.3 (September 1938), 211-227.

Tays, George. “Fremont Had No Secret Instructions.” Pacific Historical Review 9, no.2 (June 1940), 157-171.

Special thanks to Mark Hall-Patton for proofreading this script
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Wiki:
The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in today's U.S. State of California. Founded by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order to evangelize the Native Americans, the missions led to the creation of the New Spain province of Alta California and were part of the expansion of the Spanish Empire into the most northern and western parts of Spanish North American. The major coastal cities of California were originally founded as a mission or sub-mission, including San Francisco, Monterey, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Following long-term secular and religious policy of Spain in Latin America, the missionaries forced the native Californians to live in settlements called reductions, disrupting their traditional way of life. The missionaries introduced European fruits, vegetables, cattle, horses, ranching, and technology. This missions have been accused by critics, then and now, of various abuses and oppression. In the end, the missions had mixed results in their objectives: to convert, educate, and transform the natives into Spanish colonial citizens.
In 1821, Mexico achieved independence from Spain, taking Alta California along with it, but the missions maintained authority over native neophytes and control of land holdings until the 1830s. At the peak of its development in 1832, the coastal mission system controlled an area equal to approximately one-sixth of Alta California.[3] The Alta California government secularized the missions after the passage of the Mexican secularization act of 1833. This divided the mission lands into land grants, which became many of the Ranchos of California.
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[John-mfky]

Man, never knew how little of California's history i actually knew. Such an interesting history though. As a native Oregonian I've always enjoyed the different history of the west coast. California was practically heaven on earth in the early-mid 20th century imo.

[ruomingcui]

As an international student, these videos REALLY helped me learn the history of California and better prepare for the class. Thank u sooo much fir doing this!

[alolkoydesigns]

Thank you for including my cultural history. I am of Ventura Mission decent via the Channel Island Chumash.

[thecashman]

Proud native/spanish= MEXICAN born in USA

[kmzstube]

I just visited the San Gabriel mission on Monday. The site of California's first orange tree.

[trailblazintim]

What does the graph at 3:01 show? Deaths or population, or something else? I am unclear

[gusthejoker]

I went to solvang and la Purisima mission was old and made me remember when the Spaniards and Indians were here

[nemesis]

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[alexnavarro]

Hello! In the video you said the Spaniards hunted down anyone who escaped the missions. I’m trying to find the original historical references to that, but I can’t find any. Could you show me the references please?

[DeodorantDan]

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[DaglasVegas]

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[Arcsinner]

Well done video, I know next to nothing about the history of California

[bobb]

GREAT VIDEOS.. THANK YOU !! I hope you will add more to the California Indian History. As a note my ancestor Manuel Butron was Father Serra's Body Guard. He was a Catalonian Volunteer, Serra brought a small group of Catalonian's to protect the Padres and the Indians from the Spanish soldiers who he often was at odds with. . In Monterey my tribe the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel tribe were the majority and dominate tribe of Indians in the Monterey area. Rumsen's believed in 1 Gpd our Creator so they adapted to the Catholic religion easily. Serra arranged for a dowry ( a pinto pony reported in church records for my Indian Ancestor Margarita Dominguez) so she could marry my Catalonian ancestor. Manuel Butron, Serra also gave them jointly the 1st land grant in Calif at Carmel outside the chapel.with the Spanish the Indians and the Church all signing off. He also arranged for the local Rumsen Indians and their children to be educated.

[AlfredoPuente]

So religious victory isn't just a Civilization V mechanic.

[PendelSteven]

5:09 Can you tell me who that missionary is? Since that face seems very known to me. Resemblances et al.

[betsywilde]

Do you have an outline for this cynical history? I have 4th grade elementary students.

[jenniferfisher]

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[rayrombos]

Lummis admired the scant importance of Spanish culture that Racism has in it, so inherent in the Anglo-Saxon world of his time.
Charles Fletcher Lummis (Lynn, Massachusetts, March 1, 1859 – Los Angeles, November 24, 1928) was an American journalist, historian, photographer, poet, librarian, and American Indian rights activist.

[wgjung]

Hyppolite Bouchard (later Hipolito Bouchard)was a French sailor who fought in the Argentina independence wars, on the Argentina side, along with the Irish William Brown who is the creator of the navy in Argentina. Both fought against Spain in Peru and Ecuador. He obtained from the recently formed Argentina government (Provincias Unidas del Rio de La Plata at that time) the patent of corsair and sailed all over the world with the mission of prey the Spanish commerce in different colonies and also to attacks slaves ships of any flag. He traveled around the world and took Monterrey and raised the Argentine flag in that city for six days.

[josepmar]

thanks to your video I am reading the list of land grants, which I ve just found on wikipedia; I am spanish interested in comparing land allocation / grant practices of spanish-mexican settlement with those of british-american/US, the underliying mentalities of its elites and its influence on subsequent development; I guess that US sistem did not assigned super-large lands to individuals, and was focused in granting enough land to every settler