Essay On Mission Presidio System

Ramiro Espino

11/2/17

Soc 110

Mission-Presidio System Back in the years 1606- 1796 Spain had no interest in trying to come to California. There were busy working on building an empire in North American States such as, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. While building their empire in these states they were able to create a system that consisted of 3 things. The system consisted of creating several presidios, pueblos and mission across Northern America. In other words the Spanish were able to create a government type organization that was well equipped with civilians, and a military to protect its people. The system the Spanish had created was called Mission-Presidio System and this system was the back bone of their plan in order

Pueblos are towns they built near the presidios in order to create a type of economical support for both the presidios and missions. The Spanish wanted “gente de razon” living their which means they only want people with reasoning to live there since they would be able to comprehend and understand why the Spanish are doing what they are doing in the pueblos. Most “gente de razon” were mainly poor African, Spanish and Mexican Indians. There was also “gente sin razon” which stood for people that would not have a reason of what is going on and would not want to part of it even if they knew about it. These are the type of people they would not want in the pueblos. The Spanish showed hardly any discrimination compared to those ran the people of the presidios. On the other hand you would be able to tell what type of relationship the people of the pueblo and California Indians who served as a labor force to the Spanish. In 1777, close to a mission was where the first pueblo ever created was located in San Jose. Three years later after the first pueblo was made then the second pueblo was created in Los Angeles. In total they were able to build eight pueblos but only seven remained which are part of the United States of