Missions, Pueblos and Presidios

Father Serra founded the first 9 missions. What is a mission?

• a farming community

• a place where Spanish soldiers worked

• a type of settlement where the goal is to spread their religion

Many of the missionaries moved from Spain to work at the mission. What is a missionary?

• a soldier

• a person that spreads their religion

• a farmer or rancher

The missionaires worked to convert many California Indians to Catholicism. What does it mean to convert someone?

• to convince someone to change their religion

• to convince someone to move near the mission

• to leave their land to get away from the mission

When a Spanish settler runs a pueblo for five years, they can keep the land. What is a pueblo?

• a type of settlement where the goal is to spread their religion

• a place where Spanish soldiers live and work

• a farming community that is responsible for growing food for Spanish soldiers

The presidios had to rely on the pueblos for food. What is a presidio?

• a farming community that is responsible for growing food for Spanish soldiers

• a military fort in charge of protecting missions and pueblos

• a type of settlement where the goal is to spread their religion

Indigenous people have lived in California for thousands of years. What are indigenous people?

• people converted to another religion

• the first people in an area, in our state, California Native Americans

• people who moved from another place to settle

The mission achieve its objective be converting many Native Amercians to Catholocism. What is a word that means the same thing as objective?

• goal

• wrong answer

• choice

The goal of Spain is to become more powerful by increasing their number of subjects. What are subjects?

• topics of study

• people ruled by a king or queen

• soldiers

When sheep, cows and horses were brought to California, it became a pastoral economy. What is a pastoral economy ?

• an economy based on trade

• an economy based on farming

• an economy based on raising animals

California Native Americans lost their heritage when the Spanish came because they were forced to change their ways to be more like the Spanish. What is heritage ?

• customs and traditions handed down from the past

• homes and land

• trading partners