Here are the reasons why new France attracted few colonist :
- Not many push factors from France
- people scared of disease (such smallpox<span>, typhus, </span>cholera, and<span> dysentery that couldn't be handled by their current medical knowledge)
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- Indian raids (due to the anger that they felt because the Europeans stole their lands)
- bad climate (which make the new france a bad soil for agriculture business)
According to him, if you want to get what's best in your life, you should have enough courage to lose your preference about something that you believe as 'secure' and started to adopt various new exciting things that may seem crazy at first but will never be found out unless you try it yourself.
1700- the land was not very explored yet. There was a permanent mission in Baja California (today Mexico) but nothern California was claimed by Spanish, but not too explored yet.
1821- that's when Mexico had it, it's Mexico's independence year!
1846- In june and July- the California Republic!
1850- from September 9th it belonged to the States.
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