CHST Complete Questions & Answers(RATED A+)

Convict Colony - ANSWER Chumash Rebellion - ANSWER The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash Native Americans against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands. Seculatization of missions - ANSWER Between 1834 and 1836, the Mexican government confiscated California mission properties and exiled the Franciscan friars. The missions were secularized--broken up and their property sold or given away to private citizens. Secularization was supposed to return the land to the Indians. Mission Indians - ANSWER Spanish explorers arrived on California's coasts as early as the mid-16th century. In 1769 the first Spanish Franciscan mission was built in San Diego. Local tribes were relocated and conscripted into forced labor on the mission, stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. Disease, starvation, over work, and torture decimated these tribes.[1] Many were baptized as Roman Catholics by the Franciscan missionaries at the missions. Californios - ANSWER Californios as "persons of Spanish or Mexican heritage whose place of birth or residence was California, as distinct from residents who went to California from the U.S. or elsewhere John C Fremont - ANSWER Frémont was convicted in court martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who was the military Governor of California. Bear Flaggers - ANSWER During the Bear Flag Revolt, from June to July 1846, a small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic. The republic was short-lived because soon after the Bear Flag was raised, the U.S. military began occupying California, which went on to join the union in 1850. The Bear Flag became the official state flag in 1911. Gold Rush - ANSWER The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and resulted in a precipitous population decline from disease, genocide and starvation. By the time it ended, California had gone from a thinly populated ex-Mexican territory to the home state of the first nominee for the Republican Party. Cholos - ANSWER a Latin American with Indian blood; a mestizo