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American law stated that: If a married couple own such as, land, farm, homes, or business is solely owned  by the husband.
The Mexican law stated that: all land owned by married couple was community land. If they divorced half would be owned by the husband and half would be owned by the wife. Today, Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin, and Louisiana are all Community property states.

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branding cattle to keep people form fight over who cattle is who.
every owner can had different brands.

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The law did not work well in the west where water was scarce and precious.

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ranching was devolved in Spain.
eastern dairy farms were small family businesses.

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Henary Comstock was looking for gold in Nevada. His gold was mixed with a lot of worthless "blue stuff" and then the gold was worth 300 million in silver and gold

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Americas Fruit Basket
* "American settlers turned South West in to Americas fruit Basket"
* The fruits they brought were Grapes, Dates, Olives, Apples, Walnuts, Pears, Plums, Peaches, Apricots, Quinces, Lemons, Limes, And Oranges

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The Mexicanos showed them how to mine : tools Riffle Box, Batea(Gold Pan)
Mexicanos also showed us how to dig up quarts

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1. many buildings can be found with thick walls, red-tile roofs, rounded arches, and courtyards that are typical of Spanish architecture.

2. Their missions, homes, and other structures were simple and attractive.

Adobe buildings
1. since wood was scarce in the south-west, Mexicans used adobe bricks as their main building material.

2. adobe is a mixture of earth, grass, and water that is shaped into bricks and baked in the sun.

newcomers adopt the Spanish style
1. american settlers used adobe to build courthouses, trading posts, post offices, and other buildings.

2. by the 1930s nearly a million Spanish style homes had been built in California

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Mexican System of Irrigation
* Water got backed up because of the dams and was brought to the field by irrigation
*Farmers cut holes in the walls and they continued till the whole field was filled (called Mexican system)

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Before gold was discovered in California there was very little mining in the U.S.
With the help of mexicano Miners / Americans developed a "law of the miners"

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Mining in the Midwest developed in three waves- gold, silver copper.
each wave depended on the contribution of mexican miners

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1) El Cinco De Mayo Day, May 5th.
2) Rodeos became a popular sport in the western cities.

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cowboys adapted and learned skills from the mexican vaqueros. they used their clothes- ten gallon hat, sombreros, leather chaps, chaparreras, poncho, and botas

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Lane-Dale

1) Mexicano music influenced country and western music in the southwest and the corrido or folk ballad was the most important contribution.
2)Their Favorite dances were the Jota, Fandango, and the La Bamba

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Irrigated farming-
* Their Americans Knew very little about irrigated farming but knew more about farming, cattle ranching, and sheep raising
* When Mexicano settlers brought with them irrigation techniques that they had developed earlier in Spain and North Af

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Sheep Raising - Americans Adopt the Spanish System

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Sheep Raising - Americans Adopt the Spanish System

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* Americans had soon got the Spanish system for there own.
* Between 1862 and 1880, 5 million to 22 million pounds a year

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cattle ranching-
cattle ranching was a tradition brought for mexico.
Americans learned to cattle ranching form Mexican ranchers.

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Sheep Raising - The Spanish Sheep-Raising System

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Sheep Raising - The Spanish Sheep-Raising System

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* The Spanish governor of new mexico had owned two million sheep and employed 2700 workers.
* Each of the pastor was responsible for 1500 to 2000 sheep

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Lane-Dale
1)Music, Dance, Fiesta
2)William Heath Davis

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* There were two types of sheep raised in Spain: Merinos and Churros
* The sheep's knew how to survive in a dry environment like the southwest.