What made the California coast appear essential to New Spain’s survival in the Pacific basin during the second half of the eighteenth century?

Note: Focus your paper on answering only one of the prompts. Do not answer all of the prompts. Reading: Saunt, West of the Revolution, pp. 11-90. Paper Prompts: 1) What made the California coast appear essential to New Spain’s survival in the Pacific basin during the second half of the eighteenth century? 2) Why did some Native Americans go to Spanish missions in San Diego and San Francisco while others did not? What helps to explain their choices? 3) What was the overall impact of Spanish missions on Native Americans in California during the 1760s and 1770s? 4) Compare the Russian encounter with Aleuts near Alaska to English encounters with Native Americans along the Atlantic coast. What was similar? What was Different? When answering this question, use specific historical examples from (a) Saunt’s West of the Revolution, and the (b) Nash’s Red, White, and Black to defend your thesis. This is the only prompt in which you must cite examples from the Nash reading.