Exploration and Early Settlements

These forts in New Spain protected their settlements

• publeos

• presidios

• missions

• galleons

He started the first mission in Alta California

• Father Junipero Serra

• James Cook

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

• Juan Bautista de Anza

These were the two main ways to travel to Alta California

• land route and underground

• sea route and land route

• sea route and air route

• teleportation and land route

Spanish explorers went in search of riches and this legendary waterway through North America

• Mississippi River

• Colorado River

• Strait of Anian

• Overland Route

This mean to resist or act against another person or group. This is what some Native Americans did to fight against the missionaries.

• revolt

• write angry letters

• peace talk

• look for other places to live

Farming communities that were started to supply the presidios with food

• galleons

• missions

• colonies

• pueblos

Which was NOT a way Native Americans' life changed when they moved into missions

• forced into Christianity

• Allowed to keep tribal traditions

• Raised animals

• Farmed land

These were given to settlers to encourage pueblo settlements.

• money, farming tools, land, and livestock

• farming tools, land, livestock, and houses

• money, ships, land,and livestock

• land, money, livestock, and transportation

Spain began to settle Alta California by

• sending missionaries

• sending teachers

• by selling land

• sending engineers

There are ______________ missions in Alta California.

• 23

• 21

• 20

• 11