Mexican secularization act of 1833
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The Mexican secularization act of 1833 was passed twelve years after Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. Mexico feared Spain would continue to have influence and power in California because most of the Spanish missions in California remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church in Spain. As the new Mexican republic matured, calls for the secularization ("disestablishment") of the missions increased. Once fully implemented, the secularization act, called An Act for the Secularization of the Missions of California, took away much of the California Mission land and sold or gave it away in large grants called ranchos.
See also
On other missions in the Americas: view the Spanish Missions 'color bar' below.
On California history:
- Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
- History of California through 1899
- California 4th Grade Mission Project
- History of the west coast of North America
On general missionary history:
On colonial Spanish American history:
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- Indian Reductions
- California mission clash of cultures
- Native Americans in the United States
Historical fictional:
- Zorro a fictional character set in the corrupt time of just before Mexican secularization.
