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Alta California

[ ahl-tuh ]

noun

  1. a former Spanish colony of New Spain, in the modern-day states of California, Nevada, and N Arizona: ceded by Mexico to the United States 1848.


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Example Sentences

As it went with Texas and Alta California so will it go with all our states.

Ours is a bachelor community,” remarked the “Alta California,” “but nevertheless possessing strong domestic propensities.

Two years ago,” said the “Alta California” in 1851, “trade was a wild unorganized whirl.

There speaks young blood—the hot blood that lost us Texas and Alta California.

The settlement was at once made capital of Alta California, and Portola appointed the first governor.

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