Editing Los Angeles (section)

===Mexican rule===
[[File:Portrait of Pio Pico (Californian State Library) (detail).jpg|thumb|left|[[Californio]] statesman [[Pío Pico]], who served as the last [[List of governors of California before 1850|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 [[First Mexican Republic|Mexican Republic]]. During Mexican rule, Governor [[Pío Pico]] made Los Angeles the regional capital of [[Alta California]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Pio Pico, Afro Mexican Governor of Mexican California |url=http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/pio-pico-afro-mexican-governor-mexican-california |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202031612/http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/pio-pico-afro-mexican-governor-mexican-california |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |access-date=January 24, 2017 |website=African American Registry}}</ref> By this time, the new republic introduced more [[Mexican secularization act of 1833|secularization]] acts within the Los Angeles region.<ref>{{cite web |title=Monterey County Historical Society, Local History Pages--Secularization and the Ranchos, 1826-1846 |url=http://mchsmuseum.com/secularization.html |access-date=October 26, 2017 |website=mchsmuseum.com |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020212525/http://www.mchsmuseum.com/secularization.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bauer |first=K. Jack |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25746154 |title=The Mexican War, 1846-1848 |date=1993 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |edition=Bison books |location=Lincoln |pages=184|oclc=25746154 }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KyFPAAAAYAAJ|title=Historical and biographical record of southern California: containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century|last=Guinn|first=James Miller|publisher=Chapman pub. co.|year=1902|page=50|access-date=September 30, 2011|archive-date=March 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318040525/https://books.google.com/books?id=KyFPAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.