Social Studies The Mission System Review

Missionaries like Father Serra worked to:

• spread a religion

• free the mission Indians

• preserve Indian traditions

• teach the Indians how to speak English

Why did the Spanish want to teach the Indians their way of life?

• The Franciscans aimed to teach the Indians English.

• The missionaries wanted to convert the Indians to Judaism.

• The Spanish needed to teach the Indians how to hunt and gather.

• California would be easy to control if Spain didn’t have to send its own settlers.

The chain of California missions were linked by a single road called

• Sierra Expressway

• el Camino Real

• la Rue des Reyes

• Franciscan Freeway

The _______ was the mission’s most important adobe building.

• a soldiers' quarters.

• priests' rooms.

• workshops.

• church

Which jobs did Indians perform on the missions?

• used clay to make bricks

• make lumber from trees

• construct mission buildings

• all of the above

What happened if Indians chose to run away from the missions?

• They were forced to leave the territory of California.

• They were chased, brought back to the missions, and often beaten.

• They were banished from the Christian religion of the Franciscans.

• They were encouraged to return to the mission without any punishment.

The missions wanted to be centers of agriculture,

• but the church forbade them from harvesting.

• but the soil was not very fertile on the missions.

• so they taught the mission Indians how to farm.

• so they had the priests work as farmers in the offseason.

Mission Indians learned to make useful products from the livestock such as tallow, which was used to make

• candles and soap

• steaks and sauces

• vaqueros and burritos

• books and bibles

Which is true of the vaqueros?

• They built dams and dug irrigation ditches.

• They made blankets and clothing from the wool of sheep.

• They rode horses and herded cattle.

• They tended the mission crops using hoes and plows.

Mission priests often sold or _______ the extra goods the mission Indians created to get items like spices, books, and beads.

• bought

• traded

• burned

• imported