Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3

• Presidios, Missions and Pueblos

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Read page 71 aloud in class!
• Father Serra Starts the Mission Chain
• Father Serras dream of serving God in this new
  land was coming true.
• The Spanish government had chosen Father Serra to
  start more missions.
• Now his priests would bring the Spanish way of
  life to Alta California.

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Father Serra truly believed that he was helping
  the Indians by converting them to the Christian
  faith, but he also needed a work force.
• Father Serra needed people to build churches and
  workshops and to plant crops.
• At first the Indians stayed away from the
  missions. They had their own religious
  traditions.

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Then, Father Serra offered food, iron pots, and
  clothing.
• Once the priests, or padres, began to feed the
  Indians, more and more of them came.
• Many Indians came to the missions to escape
  sickness in their villages.

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Father Serra was born on the island of Majorca
  off the coast of Spain.
• He came to Mexico and was sent to California to
  start missions.
• He thought of Mission San Carlos Borromeo de
  Carmelo as his home and headquarters.

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Father Serra built the missions close to
  freshwater, good soil, and near large tribes of
  Indians he hoped to convert.
• Father Serra started the first 9 missions.

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Spanish forts, or presidios, were built mostly to
  protect the padres and colonists from Indians.
• Food raised at the missions fed the soldiers at
  the presidios. In return, the soldiers protected
  the missions.

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Towns, or pueblos, were started near missions.
• A road, El Camino Real, connected the presidios,
  missions and pueblos.
• The El Camino Real or The Royal Road went from
  San Diego to Los Angeles 200 years ago.
• It took about 4 days to walk from San Diego to
  Los Angeles. Each night you stopped at a mission
  to sleep.

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Unit 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Presidios, Missions
and Pueblos

• Spain first planned the forts or presidios to
  protect the coast from foreign invaders.