Social Studies Ch 5 Lesson 2 California's Early Communities Quiz Questions

1. A _______________________ is a new community.

2.  A person who lives in a settlement is a ______________________.

3. A ______________________ is the path or direction a person takes to get somewhere.

4. A _______________ was a small religious community with a church, a few workshops, and rooms in which people lived.

5. A ____________________ was a fort built to protect missions from enemy attacks.

6. A ____________________ is a village.

7.  What were the 3 kinds of communities that the Spanish built to help keep control of the land it had claimed in California?

8. How many missions did the Spanish build in California? Where were they located?

9. How far was it from one mission to the next? 

10. What sort of negative affect did the Spanish and their missions have on the California Indians?  

11. How many presidios did the Spanish build? _______________________

12. Where was the first mission built? _________________________

13. Where was the first presidio built? _________________________

14. Where was the first pueblo built? _________________________

Moon Calendar

Due: 2/27/12 (but Miss Farmer will be checking it weekly) Name:____________________  #:______

Moon Calendar

January 23 – February 25

Directions: Look at the moon each night and draw what it looks like in the box for that date. Don’t forget to color the lit part of the moon yellow.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31	1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25

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

California's Explorers

Tricks for remembering Explorers who came to California:

Social Studies Ch 5 Lesson 1 Notes

SS Ch 5 Lesson1: Exploring California

Main Ideas:
1. Explorers came to California from Spain, England, & Russia
2. Explorers came to California for different reasons.

Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer) 1492 he sailed from Spain to try to find a shorter route to India but instead he found California

European explorers were sent to spread their religion, find treasure, to claim land, and to buy silk and spices from Asia
They wanted to find the Strait of Anian - which they hoped would allow them to sail through North America to Asia

Hernando Cortes (Spanish explorer) sailed from Mexico (called New Spain) in the 1500s, looking for the Strait of Anian, landed in Baja California in 1535 & claimed it for Spain

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (Spanish explorer) sailed North from Mexico in 1542, reached San Diego bay & was 1st explorer to land in Alta California, claimed Catalina Island & San Miguel Island for Spain, met the Chumash Indians

English Explorer
Sir Francis Drake landed in California in 1579, stopped near San Francisco & claimed the area for England

1602 - Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino named San Diego & discovered Monterey Bay, drew maps of the coast

1700s Russians came to California to hunt seals and sea otters for their furs, they wanted pelts (animal furs) to make warm clothing to sell in Russia & China