Here’s a little background history for California.
When I was in middle school (growing up in Iowa), we didn’t get to learn about the California missions; instead, we learned about methods of slaughtering chickens back in the old days on the Prairie, or we learned how to color the Iowa counties with different colored pencils and how to put them in a scrapbook that eventually proved I learned something for social studies class.
This was originally a PowerPoint presentation with animation, so hopefully nothing will be taken out of context since it is shown all at once with no animation.
Schultz, Kevin M. HIST3. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2013. Print.