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Who were the different types of people who lived in the colony
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The first types of people who lived in the colony were the Natives and the second ones were the religious people.

History has reveals that the natives struggle for independence though out the americas forcing some of them to change their religion practices and values which they had integrated into their traditions and customs
But in the end the Spanish and their influences made their mark on cultures that still live today on present day.

It all started in the late 1600s there was catholic missionaries from Spain that came to the americas hoping to turn natives Americans into Christianity. There was a man named Father Sarah who was ask by the govern of Spanish to spread out Christianity in California, he build 7 different Catholic Churches and more in San Diego and San Francisco.
This churches were also schools, workshops ,and houses for the catholic people.

The catholic missions were still hoping to convert the natives into Christianity so they would help them and bride them into joining and changing their ways of life.

This churches still stand today in California as part of history

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What was the political structure like? - Johana

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What was the political structure like? - Johana

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The Spanish political structure was be divided into two different powers that complemented themselves. The political structure work with the Spanish crown and the catholic church.

Fray Junipero Serra, was the leader of the missioners who used catholic faith to persuade newcomers into their colonies. Every colony had a “chief”, which was like the governor in each designated settlement. They were all influence by Spanish soldier that were taking orders form the Spanish crown.

Every colony was control by the church where they would convert the Indians into Catholics faith. Conversions were so important because this is how the Spanish would gather more people on their side and collect more power.

However, the behavior of some soldiers suppresses the Indians by showing the power they had over them. Even with this untrustful actions, soldiers where not punish, rather they were protected, by decapitate the chief of the colony to send a message to all the Indians. Showing how the Spanish manage their authority in the settlements in Alto California.

The fall of the Spanish mission started to happen when the implemented two new villages of soldiers. Soon after, the Quechan rebel against them and the Spanish crown lost the two villages. Royal money and supplies were sent just before the collapsing of Alto California.

The Indians were persuaded by religion and by the obedience of the Spanish King. The crown, manage to take over their territory with violence actions and the Catholic church by making them believe this faith.

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How did the colony interact with native people 

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How did the colony interact with native people 

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Spain, pleased with the name of Christians, led two main paths to eradicate and eradicate this people from the face of the world. the primary was to wage an unjust, bloody and cruel war. The other, by killing people who until then had thirsted for his or herfreedom, or who wished to regain their original freedom and shake off the shackles of such a harmful captivity. Well, the last word goal and scope that drove the Spaniards to hunt the extermination and devastation of this people was just gold

The Spanish monarchy gained the most from the wealth of the Aztec and Incan empires. As Spain became wealthier, it became a more powerful nation. However, this advantage was quickly contested. Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and England all competed to colonize the New World, with each country hoping to emerge as the leading force in economic and cultural development. Different Native American tribes greeted the Europeans with a range of reactions, from cooperation to aggression. However, the difficulties caused by disease and the possibility of new trading relationships helped Europeans create settlements all along the western rim of the Atlantic world.

During the contact period, the boundary was constantly changing and places that are now considered ancient were once temporary settlements. This watercolor shows an 8-year-old French colony in the city in 1726. It is a beautiful depiction of the city's history and culture. It had been almost forty years since Spain had acquired the territory of Louisiana. in the foreground, an enslaved African pulls down trees on Indian company land, while another enslaved spear impales a giant crocodile. Only a few acres of land remain outside the city limits, and a wooden fence offers little protection against competing European empires.

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Was there a dominant religion, or what was the religious and other social culture like?- adalee

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Was there a dominant religion, or what was the religious and other social culture like?- adalee

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The dominant religion of the Spanish Missions was primarily Christianity faith of Catholicism. Unfortunately, the social culture that surrounded the Spanish (in general) missions was not friendly in the slightest. The Spanish held a reputation of being the Black Legend of unhuman cruelty with their front religious faith to justify the conquest and colonization's carried in the faith’s name.

In fact, these Spanish missions would often act violent or aggressively to any pagan or non-Christianized idea of faith. With the Native Americans, the Spanish Missions would enforce control over their community faith to suppress the Native American beliefs they held.

To the Spanish, the natives were treated like lost children who needed a nudge in the right direction to faith as they demeaned the natives faith as childish having to do with dream and visions from nature. Thus they punished those who practiced pagan beliefs and alienated them.

Of the aggressions committed were enforced Catholic practice (meaning no choice in the matter but to subject thyself to Catholicism), the burning of Native American idols and sacred objects or masks (to erase any and all pagan faith to break apart from the Native’s faith), and the banishing of traditional spiritual practice (to erase their culture and identity and form a new one the Spanish approved of).

It due to these aggressions that many of the groups surrounded by the Spanish Mission's became influenced to revolt or resist against them.  With such an unfriendly demeanor all parties who became known to the Spanish Missions developed such a wary or detested by the supposed religious man of faith who only dug the name through blood of cruel actions to those who did not practice their same faith.

So, while the Spanish missions claimed Catholicism as their ultimate faith, the atrocities that followed them like a plague affected the way every social group interacted with them via hostility or unfavorable.

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Who were the different types of people who lived in the colony? Give examples

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What was the colony's economic basis? What was the role of slavery?

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What was the colony's economic basis? What was the role of slavery?

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During the Spanish colonial period, the economy was based on exploration, both of land and of Native American and African labor.

The first Spanish settlers organized the encomienda system by which Spaniards were given title to American land and ownership of the villages on that land.

According to Spanish policy, colonial lands could not compete with Spain in commercial enterprises.
Spanish colonies were prohibited from manufacturing wine, olive oil, amongst other items.
Colonies were encouraged to develop mining, in order to supply Spain with silver and gold, and to develop agricultural activities such as farming and ranching.

Exports consisted mainly of precious metals and animal hides.
During the initial phase of the colonial period, gold had been collected from the Aztec treasures and from some mining operations.

Silver soon became the dominant colonial product, followed by the red dye cochineal.

Spanish colonies displayed an early abolitionist stance towards the natives. Native American slavery continued to be practiced, particularly until about 1543.

The Spanish empire, however was involved in the enslavement of African people.
Although the Spanish often depended on others to obtain enslaved Africans and transport them across the Atlantic, the Spanish Empire was a major recipient of enslaved Africans.

Because of the reduction in number of the indigenous population, primarily due to infectious disease, but also warfare and social disruption, most of the slaves in Spanish Colonies were of African decent.

In 1867, the Spanish government finally abolished slavery effectively. Though Spanish abolitionists had spoken out against the slave trade in the early nineteenth century, proslavery interests, had carried the practice for several decades more.