In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of California colonization on the history of America in a consideration of Mexican and Spanish settlements in the region. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography.
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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 final objective. Bibliography lists 7 sources. TLCcolon.rtf THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CONSEQUENCES
OF COLONIALISM IN CALIFORNIA by (c) October 2001 paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION
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 final
objective. II. THE CONSEQUENCE OF COLONIALISM The student will want to discuss the fact that Spanish and Mexican governments created a presence
in California, much to the dismay of the indigenous Indian population; while relations were somewhat amiable in the beginning, the ultimate outcome mirrored the barbaric element of the Puritans east
coast colonization. "In recent years scholars have generated voluminous amounts of data on Spanish colonialism and its effects on the native population of the Americas" (Larson et al 263).
Like so many other groups who sought a better life, the Puritans created a new existence in America different from what they had known in England. The year