CA Missions Pt. 1

To change a religion or belief is to ____

• adobe

• convert

• mission

• colony

Why did the Spanish leaders and missionaries build missions in California?

• To have Spain's power and wealth to grow, keep other European countries out, and bring new missions

• To help convert the local California Indians.

• To keep Alta California for the California Indians.

• They had nothing better to do so they build missions.

There are ______ missions in all.

• 19

• 20

• 21

• 22

Adobe were later used to build the missions. What is adobe?

• wooden structures

• cement bricks

• stones

• dried clay and straw bricks

Everyone at the missions was there by choice

• True

• False

The missionaries believed farming was a good way of life. The California Indians thought________

• hunting and gathering was better

• farming was a good way of life

• a little hunting and gathering and a little farming was best

• farming and gathering was a good way of life.

California Indians had skills that the missionaries needed. They were:

• how to farm and gather crops

• how to build boats and houses

• gather food and use herbs for medicine

• how to farm and take care of horses and pigs

As the missions expanded, priests did not want food collected by hunting and gathering. They _________

• paid people to work on missions and farms

• gave them food and shelter in exchange for working on missions and farms

• worked on the missions and farms themselves in order to be fair.

• forced people to work on missions and farms

Missionaries taught California Indians:

• heard cattle and make cloth, bricks and tools

• how to use herbs and plants for medicine

• how to go north on trails

• how to gather food in the wild

California Indians were all able to keep their traditional cultures and customs if they wanted to.

• True

• False