In seven pages this paper considers the U.S. migration of Hispanics from the eighteenth century until the present. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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vision was fulfilled during the period between 1763 and 1848, however, illustrates how brute force and political intervention was employed in order to reach toward the original objective. Upon
arrival in California, Spanish colonization began under the idea that the native Indian populations were "relatively primitive people who had to be governed with a firm hand, who were to
made Christians and taught useful arts by mission friars, and put to work to make the territory self-supporting" (Changing Views of California Indians). The Spanish truly believed they had
California all to themselves in this regard until 1821, when a Mexican Republic was created as the direct result of revolution. California then became Mexicos territory, only to once
again be taken by yet another entity in 1846 - the Americans (Changing Views of California Indians). Yerba Buena, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego were the
first ports to be captured during battle. "Imminent, however, was a development more disruptive than immigration to the Californian society. This was the revolution that ended Spanish colonial
rule, and founded the Mexican Republic on 19 November 1823. Independence from Spain was followed by chronic instability of the Mexican central government. Political dissent and conflict were
thereafter more or less continuous in Alta California except for a temporary respite during the term of the popular Jose Figueroa who was Mexican governor of the province from 1833
to 1835" (Spanish Discovery and Occupation of Alta California). Californias population multiplied five-fold in the
matter of one year: from 1848 to 1849, twenty thousand residents jumped to a staggering one hundred thousand. By this time native Indians, such as the Gabrielino, held little if any