733+Spanish+Missionaries

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 * Julia Khanunov **
 * Pavel Topchilko**
 * Ruyen Phan**
 * Nataly Azcatl**

===**1. The Spanish Missionaries were a group of Spaniards that wanted spread Christianity throughout the west, specially the Native Americans that lived there. The Spanish missions in California was to spread christian faith among the people who lived there. The Spanish wanted most of Native Americans to convert to Christianity. Sometimes they had to do it by force or if they denied they would kill them.**===
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===**2. The Spanish indeed did have a conflict with a group that was located in the "west". This conflict was with the Americans that had gotten along with the Spanish, but later it came clear that the American government wanted their land. As a result, the Mexican American War had broken out. In the end, the Americans had "stolen" the land and kept it for the United States.**===

===3.We believe that the years 1846 - 1848 should be on the timeline. These were the years that the Mexican-American War lasted. It had broken out after Texas, now backed by the U.S. government, declared that the Rio Grande was its southern border and claimed that the increase by almost 200 percent. Mexico responded to the Texans hostile and aggressive declaration by breaking off diplomatic ties with the United States===

During the 16th through the 18th century the Spanish Missionaries handed to Florida and converted many Native Americans. This was when Father Junipero Serro was spreading Christianity and lifestyle of the Spanish people throughout California. This is how Spanish Jesuit Missionaries would convert Native Americans to Christianity called the Compulsory conversion. In the late 1650s, Spanish priests began converting the Mansos, Sumas, and Janos of El Paso to Christianity and sending them on missions.