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Lectures in History

California Before the Mexican-American War

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Rick Kennedy of Point Loma Nazarene University teaches a class about Mexico's governance and plans for California in the decades leading-up to the 1848 Mexican-American War, in which Mexico lost California to the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, the new country's northernmost holding was the sparsely populated territory of California.

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Rick Kennedy of Pointe Loma Nazarene University teaches a class about Mexico's governance and plans for

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California in the decades leading up to the 1848 Mexican-American War in which Mexico lost California

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to the United States.

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Okay, scholars, huh? Scholars? This is what we're going to do today is a class called High

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Hopes of Mexican California. And this is an important thing. First of all, for those

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of us who live in California, especially those on coastal California, we are, this is our heritage.

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You know, this is who we are is in part Mexican. And a lot of our class today is about how the

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