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The Spanish and Mexican governments made many land grants in Alta California (now known as California and Baja California) from 1785 to 1846. Spanish land grants were made to retired soldiers as an incentive for them to remain on the border, and thus this way to retain them in this geographical area by means of a house.
Explanation:
Some call these concessions California Ranches, and they were the cause of dividing California into Upper and Lower California.
The Spanish and later in Mexico governments promoted the settlement of the coastal region of Alta California (now known as California) by giving prominent men large land grants called ranchos, usually two or more square leagues, or 35 square kilometers (14 square miles). The property titles of the donations (concessions), were, the property property rights free of permanent charges issued by the government to the land called ranches. The ranches encompassed virtually all of the most valuable land near the coast, around the San Francisco Bay, and inland along the Sacramento River and nearby lands in the Central Valley.
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Answer: The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840's, it was pouring into Texas. So the expansion of slavery, which became the major political question of the 1850's, was not just a political issue.
The articles created a very losely based country that would not survie
also the states were in full control and they would not pay the federal goverment taxes which would have left the goverment broke
I believe the answer is: Family structures are changing, but families remain important to American life.
The main reason of the changing structures is the increase in divorce rate, and non-monogamous relationship. In the past, almost all children only have one father and one mother. In recent years, children could have more than 2 parents or even only one (in case of single parenthood)