THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA - in 13 Minutes
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- THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA - in 13 Minutes
The first known European to reach the gorgeous coasts of California was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542. Cabrillo’s expedition had been launched from modern-day Mexico, known then as the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and ended up in San Diego Bay. The expedition was rather fruitless, however, as Cabrillo failed to discover anything that he viewed as worth the trouble for Spain to colonize. He left, and California remained untouched by European hands. Occasional ships, such as those from the Spanish East Indies traders would at times touch down on California’s coasts, but the idea of colonizing the territory still remained unconsidered. Even when English explorer Francis Drake plundered his way into Oregon and California, claiming the lands for his homeland, no real settlement of any sort was actually set up.
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Thank you for recognizing the suffering of the indigenous populations throughout all of this.
Such fascinating history. I love my state of California!
Story around the San Francisco Bay is that ships passed by the golden gate many times, but never recognized how large the bay was because it was obscured by fog
True. Added to the effect of the fog, was the fact that ships sailed miles offshore to avoid rocks and invisible obstacles. Looking due east past the inlet to the San Francisco Bay they would’ve seen what look like a contiguous landscape with the islands of Alcatraz and Angel Island, etc. appearing to obscure the mouth of the bay as if they were part of the coastline.
This is crazy interesting
& sourdough
Ño golden gate back then...."Cali Formo" may have been indigenous name....
Francis Drake sailed right by.
I had the honor to study at Monterey and Santa Barbara 1981--1984.
California indeed is the best place I've ever stayed.
It is a LOT different now.
@@Golfnut_2099 I guess I need to visit again.
Until the dems ruined it😅😂😅
@@redcardinal714what state do you live in
I'd rather be dead in California than alive in the south
You omitted the importance of the first transcontinental railroad -completed in 1869-connecting California with the rest of the US.
California has around half the population of France or the UK and an equal or larger GDP. It would be the 4th or 5th strongest COUNTRY in the world by itself. Insane
Who would of that a bunch of junkies, trans n f🏳️🌈gs have so much money.
Strongest country in what means. Military you mean? California has nearly as much population as France and UK, when California has 50 million population, so check the facts next time before you write again. When you let California invent the electrnonics we use all around the world today, like Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Tesla. Of course California becomes rich then.
@@jout738 he said has around half the population...
@@jout738 they said gdp not millitary
No if it didn’t have the US government propping it up its socialist policies would cause the state to collapse. Or it would have to undertake serious reforms. It is essentially a failed state at this point albeit the world’s most successful failed state.
Not mentioning Zorro even once? Outrageous!
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Viva Joaquin Murrieta!!!
His real name was Juaquin Murrieta
His nicknames were Jack & Jim, favorite color was gold, liked long walks on short beaches, was not a surfer
I left my heart in San Francisco The Pacific Coast Sierra Nevada mountains Palm Springs The city of Angels now Silicon Valley., went to college in LA and enjoyed the Beautyiful beaches and wonderful people
5:00 that’s the first Mass in Monterey. You can find what’s left of the tree in Monterey today. It’s our version of Plymouth Rock.
Proud to be from California born and raised in san Diego
💯
Great history lesson of California. I live in California and despite its problems, I still love living here. I live in a very safe suburb in the Bay Area so I hardly ever see crime or homelessness or stuff like that.
How about your taxes?????
Me too. I LOOVE California! I’ve lived up and down the coast of California and it’s beautiful. It’s expensive but if you can afford it, that’s the state to live in. I can’t imagine living in any other state.
Oalkand?
Hoping to visit Cali soon always love to learn the history of the places I visit first
There is no very safe place in the immediate Bay Area, you probably live in Walnut creek. Or Dublin and pretend you still live in the Bay
Good overview. The accomplishments of Kit Carson and General Kearny in helping secure CA from Mexico should not be overlooked. Their march from New Mexico to San Diego was grueling and harsh across a very desolate desert. They also suffered defeat in the battle of San Pascual. They were rescued after Kit Carson slipped away at night to SD Bay while barefoot. He alerted Commodore Stockton, and they eventually sent troops to beat the Californians back.
Kit Carson was a true man. Truly a man of vast skill, sheer survival instinct, and will. Not many men in our day could accomplish what he did.
Absolutely. But not to be overlooked, Carson killed more Indians than Spaniards in the SW. And the U S Army tried to displace US Tribes, the Navaho Long Walk, just one example. The central and northern NM Pueblo Tribes still live where the Spaniards found them 400 years ago. Were granted legal Spanish land grants under Spain which are honored by US Federal Government as legal documents.
Colonizers!!!!
just another pilagir!!!
Here to stay.
Discussions of California are bittersweet. The ups and downs of humanity are witnessed here. Influences of all kinds, good and bad, emanate from California. Although I wasn't born here, California is my home while I live. Likely, California will continue to encourage and discourage.
Transplants are ruining the state!
Perfectly put. "Sweet and Bitter Fruit" Rolling Stones.
Perfectly put. "Sweet and Bitter Fruits." Rolling Stones
Hello from Baja California!
Hola mi amor
Un saludo para ti, Álvaro desde San Pedro Mártir, Baja California. :)
Me gustaria ir a San Pedro, Baja California.
@@alvarotorres9057 Ah, pues cuando gustes! Yo soy de Tijuana, Playas de Tijuana pero actualmente vivo en San Pedro Mártir. Es muy bonito aquí..¡Un saludo!
Como te puedo contactar? Me gustaria conocerte.
Nice video, although I missed a couple of historical issues: where the name of California comes from (based on an old Medieval novel). And the small clashes between Spain and Russia along the western coast. At one point the Spanish embassador in Moscow was spying Russian intentions to settle in the area, this accelerated Spain’s exploration expeditions, especially from mid XVIII century.
The word ultimately comes from the Arabic 'Khalifa' which designates 'strong woman'. The Spanish replaced the 'Kh' with a 'C'. There were at least three prior uses of the name for lands in Spain.
And also San Francisco was called Yerba Buena
And now we are 40 million people
@gorillaplays8 Los Ángeles became Los Ángeles caídos.
@@Octavian7771Why would they call it "strong woman"?
Spain was not feminist. That shit didn't exist back then. The world was better.
Khalifa might be feminine in relation to another word with the female grammatical gender. In Spanish, la tierra is female, after all.
Merry Christmas from Bakersfield California
Ah Bakersfield, the unwashed anus of California :)
Hello there from Bakersfield, CA as well aha
No mention of:
1) Russian colonies/outposts in California
2) Independent Texas
3) New California Republic's foundation :P
Yeah I noticed this too. Why no mention of the Russian Californians? They had Fort Ross from 1812 to 1841
Where the hell are you getting those Russian colonies in California from??
@@sierra5713 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_colonization_of_North_America
The lack of mentoning and showing Texas Independence surprised me, too.
Why Texas? Its a video of Cali
Running the show from a distance is difficult to do. Spain learned this the hard way and so did Mexico. Those who benefitted the most were the ones who fought for CA independence. Today 40 M residents call California home. Can we continue and afford to grow? Only time will tell.
Usa started the Mexican independence just to still land. Mexico is just a puppet government
Spain wasn't running It from the distance It was part of Spain like another region same as Mexico they lose It apart of the internal fights inside the empire and to be in war with multiple empires at the same time apart of the decay of their resources the Empire was so big that It was really difficult to control everything at the same time, Napoleon and the French empire decided to invade Spain so they focused in the Peninsula letting those regions much more vulnerable to be invaded. But for example the Independence of a lot of countries like Mexico was just Spanishs mixed with the natives taking apart a region of the spanish empire.
The fact that we get free videos on TH-cam by Knowledgia is truly a gift; keeping the education and knowledge alive. 👏👏👏
I'm proud to say California is my birth and home state. While I'm sad to see so much political and moral corruption, I'll continue to love these lands to be a positive influence one way or another.
Im gonna visit California next year! Im so excited!
@@V935_ytwhich part of California
Unlike that other guy lmao you clearly do live here. Bout time I started seeing people speak on corruption and lack of moral values.
Likewise, our family has been here now for 100 years in Southern California
As a native in San Diego all I can say is it's different but I love it 😂
Having visited California and I know a few people who live there, I would love to live there, only if I was rich enough to own a beach house. Ideally with a view of a mountains (snow capped would be nice.) and also near to fun nightlife lol.
But you can actually get that in California. Snow ski in the morning, water ski in the afternoon and then watch a nice sunset and go out somewhere nice. Not surprising it's so popular.
Los Angeles has a strange feeling on a weekend night, not like anywhere else I have been. Sort of a passion and death feel. The mix of poverty and wealth is shocking.
California will never be affordable for guys like you and me to actually live in. It is only going to continue to grow more expensive. Also, I guarantee you will not like the politics of that state. You're better off simply living in Nevada, Oregon, or Arizona, and visiting California frequently for fun.
@@jacob4920Gavin Newsom for Prez 2028
I ❤ California!
I'm 3rd generation Northern California from Sacramento, I enjoy learning about my state.
What a great perspective you brought to light. California has such a rich and ever changing history. Visiting California multiple times in my youth, I felt the history of the mission. This sort of feeling that a part of the culture and land had once been set a part for Gods use and glory. I never knew the rich history that founded that.
Pretty good presentation! Yes, a couple of omissions, but on the whole, excellent.
And weird pronunciations by the robot.
Forgot the part where Spaniards colonized North America more than a century prior to any of the pilgrims arriving in North America. This video makes it as if both the U.S. and New Spain/Mexico were formed at the same time and that was not the case.
U obviously missed where the video mentioned Cabrillo in the 1500's and Vizcaino i think in the 1600s.
The name California is Spanish which =Spain
CA native here. Just think of everything invented in CA that runs the world today. I grew up in Sunnyvale when it was fruit trees and farms. I’ve now lived in LA 40 years. I’ll never leave this awesome state. Stay Blue CA !
You included a lot of interesting 🧐 points in these short review of California. 👍
The indigenous had well over a million in population. The Aztec capital had 1 million people alone.
The entire empire had about 6 million people from coast to coast
California love ❤
Yes! 2Pac's California Love!
OK gangster
@@johnc3473
I'm curious: Do the average CA even realize that the state became Mexico-like and became way closer to Latin America rather than EU or any proper developed country?
@@AngelicoCiudad”Became mexico like” yet you will see more homeless people in cali than you’ll see in Mexico. EU? 😂 your an immigrant
Another great video!!!
Great video. Thanks from Canada
California was actually a state in Mexico in the past before United States took over the state after a war happened between the American and Mexican armies which the American army won and expandad their country which included the California state,good friends!!!MERRY CHRISTMAS,GOOD FRIENDS!!!🙏🏻
Slightly correct but in reality, in your worldview, Alta California was taken FROM Spain BY the revolutionaries who sought independence. It was not a part of Mexico and should therefore have remained Spain even after the revolution. As for "taking it over" after the Mexican/American war, Mexico was paid for the land they actually had no "legal" right to in the first place. A sweet deal for them in the long run as it was never seen as land worth investing in by Spain OR Mexican revolutionaries.
This is why the cartels no le gusta the inhabitants today
@@Laceykat66You are right as the Mexican were paid for the land for the reason which you have correctly stated but Spain already a nation in Europe despite the Spanish and Mexican could have made California a state in Mexico but yeah,the state is not worth investing,good friend!!!🧚♀️
@@Laceykat66 Seeing as how the United States army actually made it all the way down to Mexico City, and occupied it for a time, the US could have been well within their rights to take ALL of Mexico for themselves, not just California. But the US didn't want Mexico (or the Mexicans). So they handed the country back to Mexico, pretty much in exchange for Alta-California.
@@Laceykat66What sweet deal? The “real Americans” (White) stole that land from the newly Americanized Mexicans that owned that land for generations. The United States does what it does best and violates the treaty and their word.
The bear flag “revolutionaries” consisted of 30 whole men, in a land with 150,000 natives and 10,000 californios
Before American migration the natives and Californios tried to rebel against Mexico because of neglect and the secularization of the mission system. Californian or Californio no one really wanted to be part of Mexico.
And they didn’t just say “oh well” and join the US, there were battles and skirmishes all around, nothing huge like in other places but still fighting. A few in San Diego area alone.
Britannica says that they were approximately 500 Americans living in California at the time of the Bear Flag revolt. Where did you source your statement of 30 men?
@@jonfoster6626 reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit huh? I said the number of “revolutionaries” not the number of Americans living in California. Btw my source is the memorial in the town of Sonoma where this all happened
I would wipe my a$$ with the stupid bear flag.
A video about California history and not one mention of Junipero Serra our founding father.
Father Serra and Crespi accompanied Gaspar de Portola and founded twenty one missions between San Diego and San Francisco.
The treat of Hidalgo,singing at Campo de cayiga, north Hollywood
As someone who was born in California, this just summed up all that I learned in elementary school in 10 minutes 😭
I was expecting at least some mention of the formation of Silicon Valley and Hollywood since these are the sits of institutional power in the state that distinguishes from the rest of the country and even the world.
For the Hollywood part of your expectation, although he didn't mention it by name, at 12:40, he did mention that California as a whole was the home of cinema and fame.
Glad to see people saying Cali sucks without understanding materialism 😊
What the heck is a Cali?
Great quick documentary! Forgot to mention the epicenter of the technology explosion.
Would have been very interesting if you would have included the Russian colonies north of San Francisco
I only entered the video hoping for that to be mentioned
Argentinian as well
@@riveraJG Argentinian colonies?
We don't want to encourage Putinism.
@@riveraJGthe video is about Cali as in California, not about Cali, Colombia lol
Ah, yes, the legendary island of California, yes.
The map says so!
That island refers to Baja California you clown. 🤡
@@McfunfaceHe/she is talking about how California got its name.
Great video ❤🎉
Left a lot of important facts regarding the Spanish period.
Como español 🇪🇸, estoy orgulloso del legado que España dejó en California. ¡Viva California y España! 🇪🇸❤️🇺🇸
Spain is garbage now. Bunch of lazy losers. Mexico kicks their a**es in every combat sport.
Vivo en la alta califorina. Orgulloso novohispano que radica en el condado de riverside y tiene la aspas de Borgoña ondeando enfrente de su casa
La Iglesia católica también merece crédito en este aspecto. Todos los soldados españoles que acompañaban a los misioneros querían regresar a México, pero Junípero Serra insistió en seguir adelante. En términos de años, España estuvo activamente involucrada en California durante 52 años, de 1769 a 1821. México durante 27 años, de 1821 a 1848. Luego, Estados Unidos, que ha estado gobernando durante los últimos 175 años.
Pues sí, pero España no lo colonizó (pobló), México tampoco lo pobló porque no tenía gente (la población total de México en 1840 era de 6,5 millones de habitantes). La falta de población fue uno de los factores para que Estados Unidos se apropiara (mejor dicho Robara) la Alta California a México junto con Nuevo México, Tejas, y partes de Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Sonora e Incluso una pequeña parte de la Baja California. En total 2.500,000 Km cuadrados Robados, o sea, 5 veces el Tamaño de España.
No mames los mayas andavan en California
Bodybuilding has been shaped by CA. Our beach culture, acceptance of new things and love for health has sparked a muscle building revolution that has gone global.
Not to mention fake boobs and plastic surgery 😂
Ur a fool. Bodybuilding was shaped by the Greeks. They also made weight lifting a sport. Bodybuilding's Mr Olympia trophy literally is of a Greek statue. Californians were into bodybuilding more than other Americans, but Californians did not shape bodybuilding.
Great video folks! I hope you folks can please do videos on a Texas, Florida, New York, Michigan & Maryland next.
We uploaded videos for Texas and New York by now. Make sure to check those out :)
@@Knowledgia why did you bring up in the video The Russian Californians? They had the colony of Fort Ross and were there from 1812 to 1841.
No mention of Fr. Junipero Serra, called The Father of California.
Gold was discovered FIRST in Placerita Canyon (in north Los Angeles Co.), 6 years BEFORE Sutter's Mill, kicking off a gold rush of 20,000 miners to the area. 😎
" As the story goes, it was on a spring day in 1842 that mineralogist Francisco Lopez decided to take a leisurely nap beneath the tree now known as the Oak of the Golden Dream. While sleeping, Lopez had visions of being floated along a river of pure gold. When he awoke, he found that he was famished and dug up some wild onions, but discovered flecks of gold (whole nuggets according to some accounts) clinging to the roots when he pulled the vegetables from the ground. All visions aside, this was the first documented discovery of gold in the California region. After Lopez brought his gold to Los Angeles to be appraised, other prospectors began to smell the possibility of riches in the Western soil and the famous California Gold Rush was underway.
The Oak of the Golden Dream is now an official California Historic Landmark and its gnarled trunk can still be visited in the Placerita County Natural Area."❤
Sutter's Mill was just the most famous gold rush of a number that occurred at the time. Not the First.
Didn't know that history. Did the Native Americans never collect and use the gold that they surely encountered?
@@389383 Good Question. Google says: "Did Native American Indians have gold? "In Indian graves of the Colonial period and later, occasional gold coins are found, but it is a fact realized by few that the greater number of American Indians in pre-Columbian days had never seen nor heard of gold."
Gold dust found in streams would need to be melted into bigger nuggets that could then be hammered into plates or jewelry, etc. They worked with beads instead apparently.
@@389383 They apparently didn't find it as useful as pottery and leather, and preferred beads as an adornment.
In the future, they will become the NCR and fight against Caesar Legions
Totally awesome game.
Hey, I just have a little request for you. I’m a big fan of all that you do, and so I was wondering if you could make a video about my home state of Colorado that would be very much appreciated. 😊😊
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Tangent Southern California officially left in 1861 just in time for the civil war and sent troops to the Arizona territory to defend it against Texas rangers
That shits crazy
Lincoln expedited building a railroad to connect with California to save it from joining sides with the Confederacy. After that, the Union Soldiers stationed in California were assigned to deal with the Native American Populations, instead of fighting with the Southern States. California was hosting Chinese Slaves at the time. Yes, California was utilizing Chinese Slavery. There is a network of tunnels dug under Los Angeles by Chinese Slaves.
What a grossly oversimplified version of California's history!
Make a better video.
What do you want in 13 minutes. I learned more in 13 minutes than my school taught us in 12 years in the L.A. school system
Thanks!
Mulțumesc mult!
California always did its own thing. The energy here is crazy.
What everyone forgets is the ancient El Beach Boyz, the ancient founders of El Surfo Citi Alta California, were there first.
Love to see the history of my state
Well done. Would suggest you add a continuous graphic timeline or captions showing the period of years you're speaking about.
Thi where my ancestors came from. My grandparents were born in the late 1800’s in the Arizona Territory Altar Sonora, New Spain & Alta California but with Mexican citizenship. Natives were not recognized. I found our history on ancestry. The missions have a lot of history about the Spanish army and I found that my family had a mixed Spanish Native solder.
10,000 BC? You're about 5,000 years off. And hell the foot prints at 'White Sands" are estimated at 20,000 years BC.
California a part of vast " Nueva España" Viceroyalty in the large extensión ocuped the 60% of U.S without Alaska in 18 century
A wonderful historical coverage video about recently creation of California state. Yes meats is deserves eagles...not Grazing animals..
Not exactly, but a valiant attempt for 13 minutes! If you dig deeper, it was bc gold was discovered that the US Army started to annex the area to secure for US. Treaties with tribes were signed early on (1850's) but were not ratified by congress and lost in the back of a file. They were found in 1905. This is why we have rancherias and reservations. I like that someone tackled a brief history!
Cabrillo was looking for another Civilization to loot. Little did he know that the hills of California were full of gold
Should have made Baja California part of California and we might have more vacation places😂
William Walker tried but he was defeated by the Mexican army, you always crossed the border to make Mexican territory independent, turn them into slave republics and annex them to the USA to look "legal" and not an usurpation 🙄
Till, this day I still don't want to leave the city and state only a few would understand the inversion, their.
3:00 Remember the first ever mission and presidio in the Californias was Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Baja California Sur in 1697 on the southernmost tip of the Californian peninsula.
This video is clearly about Alta California, not Baja California.
@@theejayzeeable clearly illustrated the point. Thanks.
I've been here most of my life. I love this place, even with all its many flaws, as has recently been occurring. I'm especially sad to see the inner cities in such horrible shape with high crime rates, substance abuse, homelessness, and much more. I doubt we'll go back to the glory days, not for a long time. However, I refuse to leave. Maybe I am just stubborn and also love this place too much. Great video ❤
We can improve the place by replacing the governor, mayors, and prosecutors that have encouraged and promoted the crime and inflation.
@@DavidMcdonald-df8tbWhen is that ever going to happen?
Politicians come & go. This astonishingly beautiful land will continue
Build the Wall 🧱!! 💯💯
100% California is getting killed by the drugs alone coming from the border
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Nice.
Francis Drake didn't plunder across California, strange thing to mention, especially compared to other "visitors" to the state in the early years
“Revolt”? How does one revolt on their own land?
American settlers in Alta California were invited by the Mexican government to settle what is todays Americas southwest because Mexico wanted the land to have a bigger economic output, Mexicans weren’t moving to those territories, and because the Amerindians were harassing the local Mexican officials in those territories. When Americans started to settle in those territories the Mexican government forced Americans to assimilate into Mexican culture and they had to learn Spanish and if they didn’t the settlers could be jailed. These laws weren’t enforced on a large scale but in Sonoma California they were and that’s where the bear flag revolt started. Many local Spanish missionaries, Amerindians, and Mexican settlers supported the uprising because they too did not like the laws set before them by Mexico City. Even before the bear flag revolt there were a few uprisings by Spanish missionaries and other settlers for various reasons.
Nice
VERY NICE VIDEO 🇺🇸 👍 🙂
Didn’t know CA had the first “pooh-eblos”
...or "pres-i-DEOS"
Yooooooooo my state!
my condolences
Alta California demands the reunification of Lake Tahoe and our brothers in Baja California.
6:00 Illegal crossing from the US into Mexico?
yes California was Mexican territory
we all know the whole South West was stolen by the whites no offense
It's the history
i guess u skipped the part were russia comes saild down and tries to setup trading post/towns
He skipped a lot of important stuff. Like Alta California being independent in 1836 for a bit. That’s what happens when you make low effort pop history videos I guess lol
I'm a Californian. I've lived here all my life. California is a great place to live. The problem is, we failed to keep that a secret. Ans since we failed to keep that a secret, practically everybody in the world moved here. And with overcrowding comes pollution, congestion, strain on public resources, strain on natural resources, increased real estate prices and cost of living, and a need for more repressive laws so everyone can get along. And all of those factors have contributed to making California a crappy place to live.
(See what I did there?)
Agreed! I'm a fifth generation Californian, from WLA, since 1870, 60,000 people migrated from Northern France when there was a war with Germany. And now I'm trying to find a new place to live, but that too has turned out badly. Everywhere I go now, I feel displaced. Why do I have to leave so that everybody else can come? That's an invasion. They wrecked our easy-going garden-outdoorsy healthy culture.
@MissBabalu102 You're absolutely right. It's like they want to turn California into a state where to live here you either have to be either super rich or willing to be a servant of someone who is. Welcome to California: only millionaires and maids need apply. If you don't make at least a million dollars a year, or are willing to work for less than $50,000 a year, the get the fuggout! I think that's going to be a new state law effective starting next year...
@@benjauron5873 It's outrageous! I think we overwhelmingly voted to save our State from over-immigration (sanctuary) 24 years ago, it won by a huge majority, but the courts overturned it, and that was the start of the end. Someone decided to give our
State to the world. It was always expensive, but the culture is just selfish now. You could easily make friends and your life would change overnight. They don't know how to assimilate, and don't care. It's just way too much! It's infuriating when someone not from here suggests I move away. I'm angry as hell now, I looked and tried and it doesn't work.
@@MissBabalu102 No doubt about it.
As a Californian...I greatly disagree....California has always been a crappy place...
only people who thought otherwise probably were of the upper class and/or part of the group that eventually was part of the 'white flight'...plus if you are from California you should know by now people complaining about 'strain on resources' and 'overcrowding/congestion' are more often than not using code wishing there weren't so many Mexicans, African Americans and increasingly Asians....you don't know 'congestion' lmao we have NOTHING on New York alone.
Uber Capitalism, Racism, Police Brutality(have you forgotten their horrendous historical beginnings which is why to this day California's law enforcement have a very negative rep?), Corruption and the 2 party corrupt system is why California is in the state it's in and is largely why it's always been a shitty place to live...
Funny part you claim everyone wants to move here (I beg to differ)...every non Californian US citizen I know who has moved here either has left (many going to Florida, Nevada and Texas) or wish they could leave but don't have the $$$ to go back home...only people I know for certain who wants to come here are foreigners who desire citizenship and try to 'make it in hollywood' not realizing it's no where near that easy or simple or straight forward.
Let it be known we Californians have $$$. In fact America has $$$. Our 2 parties (and their gullible supporters thinking their vote for either parties will make a change) other hand do not wish to waste their pockets on the working class majority. Hell barely care for the middle class. There is no strain on resources. Our gov just don't care. That's Capitalism baby...
It would be great to add to this documentary the establishment of Ford Ross and other Russian influence in the mid 18th century
Bro, you did Maine dirty with that map 😂
The biggest fact you left out in your history of California was the Russians. While all of Europe was ""going West young men," Peter the Great had to go East to expand his empire. Already established in Alaska, the plan was to go down the coast, land, go inland, and bury bronze plaques claiming the land for the Czar ( and later the Czarina with Katherine the Great). The idea was that when more settlers and materials were available for real colonies, Russia could come in, dig up the plagues, and push their claim. It was when Spain heard of this that they started exploring and establishing their hold on land they had no previous interest in. The Mission System started in San Diego with the second Mission anchoring the northern edge of Spanish territory. Ft. Ross, north of San Fransico & Drake's Bay, was not only a Russian colony but the land was actually purchased from the native inhabitants and is the first transaction of its kind in North American history. Russians actually are the only ones to have a "legal" right to be here.
I’m unaware of said transaction, but if true, it wouldn’t have been the first anyway. Manhattan was bought to the natives as well, way before any european set foot on the west coast. The Brits did many similar tresties while settling the east coast.
I was going to mention it. Spain didn't have any real claim, north of San Francisco, and the land further inland from San Francisco is also up for grabs. Some guy was planning to make the Sacramento area, a Swiss colony. That is how weak the Spanish claim was.
The Russians were left out because, let's be honest here, their impact on California's history is so negligible that it really doesn't make a splash in the history books.
Spain was all the way up to Nutka Alaska. Natives all over the coast still spoke Spanish until the Anglos came. San Diego was not the first mission. There are missions all down Baja California Norte and Sur. You also say that it had no interest in its northern claims yet they built Nuevo Mexico. Also most natives wanted to be part of the empire. They still hold the titles and rights given to them by the Spanish monarchs
The Spanish had already claimed what is now California in 1542 through Carrillo’s expedition-that’s two centuries before Russia even sent a ship. Then the Spanish reasserted that existing claim through the Portillo expedition in 1769 with the mission system. The Spanish always had the greatest claim to California as evidenced by the history that followed.
No word about Russian colonies in California...?
really, the first pueblo and largest city on the North American west coast north of Los Angeles doesn't get a mention or a spot on the map? Sad.
209 Stockton Northern California baby merry Xmas eve
You skipped Alta California’s independence in 1836
California was never independent, the bear revolt was only an attempt by 30 Americans who barricaded themselves in the municipal palace of Sacramento
In that century the USA spent its time trying to make states independent of Mexico to annex them legally, years later William Walker tried to "independent" Baja California and Sonora but was defeated
@@emmanuelake421 I’m not talking about the bear revolt bozo
I actually visited a random Russian Fort in the region but can't seem to remember the name.
Ft. Ross. Though the Russians frequented the San Diego Bay area when seal hunting. There was a freshwater spring called "Russian Springs" along the Coronado Stand well into the 1950s. It is even recorded that the Russians would build house-size ovens to bake bread for the ships and that these ovens, once abandoned, were used by the native people for dwellings.
Often overlooked because it didn't have a lasting effect -- other than a catastrophic one for the indigenous people of the area and, especially, the sea mammals -- the Russian settlement of Fort Rossiya (now Fort Ross) north of San Francisco lasted from 1812-1838
Yep, it's extraordinary. Come and sit in traffic on a six lane freeway to make it 16 miles and it only takes a little more than an hour. Enjoy the fumes. Please don't misunderstand as the place has many of the best natural wonders in the world. It's just so beautiful that way too many of us live here and it weighs on Mother Nature to protect herself and the special nature of the beauty from incessant abuse and neglect by us humans. Check out the lyrics to 'The Last Resort' by the Eagles. We'll all understand each other more fundamentally after.
Not talking about the California Genocide from 1846 to 1937 is insanity. It was a systematic extermination of any native within California, & its so looked past its sickening.
No, your racist view of Genocide is. The Genocide actually took place before 1846. The reason why US was able to take over California was Mexicans genocided the Natives, and the natives fought back, leaving California defenseless. or are you talking about the Chinese exclusion act, forcing all teh Chinese out of the country.
I joke that my patron saint was San Quintin. The one who fought against Mexican occupation and how they brought disease to the natives to get rid of them.
@@slewone4905 wtf is wrong with you. Nothing I said was racist on my part. Why tf would I be talking about the Chinese? I think youre the racist. The US genocided my people the native Americans within California from.1846 to 1937, so says the Wikipedia anyway. I sincerely urge you seek help.
Why just 1846? It started with the Spaniards and continued until recently based on cultural destruction.
All over the US the commited genocide against the indigenous. Why do you think their isn't that many in the US compared to Mexico.
There is huge gap in this video I suggest to read history of Fort Ross which was originally Russian
As a native of California, I feel more at home listening to the Spanish I can just kind of understand than the British/Australian English I can completely understand. It's weird.
California 🔥❤️❤️❤️
His pronunciations show that he’s not from California 😂
had to check the pronunciation, thought I had been saying presidio wrong my whole life
Definitely from Utah or Idaho
how can you call them native americans if they came from asia?
Indigenous Siberians?
@@thepeter3116 Migrant Siberians nobody is native to the western hemisphere
The name stems from the understanding that they were the first people's known to consistently walk and live in this region of the Americas.
But to call them "Natives" is not right nobody in the world is natives besides the people in africa@@_thomas1031
Because they were first to settle.
It's the center of the tech industry and Hollywood, which makes the USA different from the rest of the world.
Can you do a History of The Holy Land?