USA HISTORY

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: -The Alta California missions, known as reductions (reducciones) or congregations (congregaciones), were settlements founded by the Spanish colonizers of the New World with the purpose of totally assimilating indigenous populations into European culture and the Catholic religion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Such an empowerment clearly meant that along with Spanish law, governance, language, and culture, the Roman Catholic religion, too, would cross from Europe to the Americas and that the king of Spain would engage in the spread of Christianity to the native peoples of the New World.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mission Nombre de Dios was the first Spanish mission established in North America. It was founded on the same day as Saint Augustine, Florida, in 1565. The mission system then spread throughout northeastern Florida and into coastal Georgia. Many of these missions served the Timucua Native Americans.