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    The document discusses the history of Spanish, Mexican, and American rule over the Los Angeles area from the 1540s to the mid-20th century. It covers Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claiming the area for Spain in 1542, the founding of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles in 1781, Mexican rule after independence from Spain in 1821, and American conquest after the Mexican-American War culminating in the Treaty of Cahuenga in 1847.

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    The document discusses the history of Spanish, Mexican, and American rule over the Los Angeles area from the 1540s to the mid-20th century. It covers Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claiming the area for Spain in 1542, the founding of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles in 1781, Mexican rule after independence from Spain in 1821, and American conquest after the Mexican-American War culminating in the Treaty of Cahuenga in 1847.

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    Spanish rule

    Maritime explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area of southern California for the Spanish Empire in 1542 while on an official military exploring
    expedition moving northward along the Pacific coast from earlier colonizing bases of New Spain in Central and South America.[43] Gaspar de
    Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2, 1769.[44]

    The Spanish founded Mission San Fernando Rey de España in 1797.


    In 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area.[45] On September 4,
    1781, a group of 44 settlers known as "Los Pobladores" founded the pueblo (town) they called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles,
    'The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels'.[27] The present-day city has the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the United States. Two-thirds
    of the Mexican or (New Spain) settlers were mestizo or mulatto, a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry.[46] The settlement remained a
    small ranch town for decades, but by 1820, the population had increased to about 650 residents.[47] Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the historic
    district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street, the oldest part of Los Angeles.[48]

    Mexican rule

    Californio statesman Pío Pico, who served as the last Mexican


    governor of California, played an influential role in the development of Los Angeles in the late Mexican
    and early American eras.
    New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo now existed within the new Mexican Republic. During Mexican
    rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles the regional capital of Alta California.[49] By this time, the new republic introduced more secularization acts
    within the Los Angeles region.[50] In 1846, during the wider Mexican-American war, marines from the United States occupied the pueblo. This resulted in
    the siege of Los Angeles where 150 Mexican militias fought the occupiers which eventually surrendered.[51]

    Mexican rule ended during following the American Conquest of California, part of the larger Mexican-American War. Americans took control from
    the Californios after a series of battles, culminating with the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847.[52] The Mexican Cession was
    formalized in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ceded Los Angeles and the rest of Alta California to the United States.

    Post-Conquest era
    See also: Victorian Downtown Los Angeles and Los Angeles in the 1920s
    The Treaty of Cahuenga, signed in 1847 by Californio Andrés
    Pico and American John C. Frémont, ended the U.S. Conquest of California.
    Railroads arrived with the completion of the transcontinental Southern Pacific line from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1876 and the Santa Fe
    Railroad in 1885.[53] Petroleum was discovered in the city and surrounding area in 1892, and by 1923, the discoveries had helped California become the
    country's largest oil producer, accounting for about one-quarter of the world's petroleum output.[54]

    By 1900, the population had grown to more than 102,000,[55] putting pressure on the city's water supply.[56] The completion of the Los Angeles
    Aqueduct in 1913, under the supervision of William Mulholland, ensured the continued growth of the city.[57] Because of clauses in the city's charter that
    prevented the City of Los Angeles from selling or providing water from the aqueduct to any area outside its borders, many adjacent cities and
    communities felt compelled to join Los Angeles.[58][59][60]

    In the early 20th century, Hollywood studios, like Paramount


    Pictures, helped transform Hollywood into the world capital of film and helped solidify LA as a global
    economic hub.
    Los Angeles created the first municipal zoning ordinance in the United States. On September 14, 1908, the Los Angeles City Council promulgated
    residential and industrial land use zones. The new ordinance established three residential zones of a single type, where industrial uses were prohibited.
    The proscriptions included barns, lumber yards, and any industrial land use employing machine-powered equipment. These laws were enforced
    against industrial properties after the fact. These prohibitions were in addition to existing activities that were already regulated as nuisances. These
    included explosives warehousing, gas works, oil drilling, slaughterhouses, and tanneries. Los Angeles City Council also designated seven industrial
    zones within the city. However, between 1908 and 1915, the Los Angeles City Council created various exceptions to the broad proscriptions that
    applied to these three residential zones, and as a consequence, some industrial uses emerged within them. There are two differences between the
    1908 Residence District Ordinance and later zoning laws in the United States. First, the 1908 laws did not establish a comprehensive zoning map as
    the 1916 New York City Zoning Ordinance did. Second, the residential zones did not distinguish types of housing; they treated apartments, hotels, and
    detached-single-family housing equally.[61]

    In 1910, Hollywood merged into Los Angeles, with 10 movie companies already operating in the city at the time. By 1921, more than 80 percent of the
    world's film industry was concentrated in L.A.[62] The money generated by the industry kept the city insulated from much of the economic loss suffered
    by the rest of the country during the Great Depression.[63] By 1930, the population surpassed one million.[64] In 1932, the city hosted the Summer
    Olympics.
    Post-WWII

    During World War II, the California Shipbuilding


    Corporation on Terminal Island was among the many builders that made the Port of Los Angeles one of
    the largest shipyards in the country.
    During World War II Los Angeles was a major center of wartime manufacturing, such as shipbuilding and aircraft. Calship built hundreds of Liberty
    Ships and Victory Ships on Terminal Island, and the Los Angeles area was the headquarters of six of the country's major aircraft manufacturers
    (Douglas Aircraft Compa

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