Use your social studies book and your vocabulary flashcards to help you complete this quiz.
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Question 2
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Why did the Spanish create missions in California?
Question 3
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Describe what life was like for California Indians at the missions. Give details and evidence to support your answer.
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Question 11
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Some people wanted to secularize the missions. What does that mean?
Question 12
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Why did Spain send explorers to California in the late 1700s?
The Spanish had run out of room in New Spain
The King was hoping to find a new place to build his palace.
The Spanish wanted to meet the California Indian tribes.
The King was worried that other countries might take control of California.
Drag the vocabulary words to match the correct definition.
Missions
Pueblos
Colony
Presidios
Settlements with the goal of spreading religion.
Spanish towns that grew food for the soldiers.
Military forts where Spanish soldiers lived.
Land controlled by another nation.
Drag the job descriptions to match the people groups who did them.
Return escaped California Indians to the missions.
Performing religious ceremonies.
Tending the crops and animals.
Building the missions buildings.
Baptize California Indians.
Keep Spanish citizens safe from danger.
California Indians
Spanish Missionaries
Spanish Soldiers
Which word best completes this sentence?
One of the goals of the Spanish missionaries was to ______ the California Indians to Catholicism.
revolt
seularize
convert
settle
Which word best completes this sentence?
The Kumeyyay people led a ____ at Mission San Diego, during which the church burned down.
revolt
independence
ceremony
Californio
Which word best completes this sentence?
California Indians are the ____ people of California.
subject
settler
missionary
indigenous
What were some of the effects that occurred because the Spanish introduced a pastoral economy?
This pastoral economy made people very wealthy, so the California Indians built larger towns with their new money.
The pastoral economy introduced new farm animals and a European style of farming, which changed the way the land was used. Indians could no longer hunt and gather as they used to.
The pastoral economy introduced a new religion called Catholicism to the California Indians.
When Mexico gained its independence from Spain, what was the new type of government they established?
Republic
Monarchy
Empire
What did people need in order to apply for a land grant? Check all that apply: