FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Spanish
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Texans
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The California missions began in the late 18th century as an effort to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and expand European territory. Spain was responsible for the missions, which scholars believe were attempts to colonize the Pacific coast of North America.
Detailed explanation-2: -Interactions with Native Americans: Spanish colonizers attempted to integrate Native Americans into Spanish culture by marrying them and converting them to Catholicism.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first mission was set up in 1769 by the Spanish soldier and explorer Gaspar de Portolá and the Spanish priest Junípero Serra. The first mission was San Diego de Alcalá. Twenty more missions followed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first would be to convert natives to Christianity. The second would be to pacify the areas for colonial purposes. A third objective was to acculturate the natives to Spanish cultural norms so that they could move from mission status to parish status as full members of the congregation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Jesuits. The Jesuits had a wide-spread impact from their arrival in the New World about 1570 until their expulsion in 1767.