California was first settled by native americans and, later, by spanish and mexican explorers and missionaries. in fact, california was once part of mexico, and mexican cultural traditions were very strong. but after california became a part of the united states, those traditions were deliberately ignored and neglected. murals have been the perfect way to make the mexican history of california visible again. chicano park in san diego and balmy alley in san francisco are places where murals bloom like wildly colored cactus flowers against the grey background of the city. and each of these places has a story. what is the setting of this excerpt? california mexico spain texas

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .