Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Social Studies Ch 5 Lesson 2 California's Early Communities

Vocabulary
settlement - new community
settler - person who lives in a settlement

3 types of communities:
1. Missions - built by the Spanish, small religious community with a church, a few workshops, & rooms in which people lived
21 missions all built near the coast, Father Junipero Serra (a priest) helped build all the missions from San Diego to Sonoma
1st mission - San Diego de Alcala built in 1769
led by priests, they taught Christian religion, Indians worked growing wheat and corn and raising animals

2. Presidios - built by the Spanish, was a fort to protect the missions
 4 presidios, built near best harbors
1st presidio - San Diego in 1769
others were built in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, & Monterey
they were government buildings, soldiers & their families lived there, a large wall protected each presidio

3. Pueblo - a village, started by American Indians & people from Spain, Mexico, & Africa
had adobe houses, churches and public buildings
supplied missions & presidios with food & goods
1st built in 1777 near San Francisco (became San Jose)
Los Angeles was originally a pueblo

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