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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 
 
Choose the best answer.
 

 1. 

Who started the first missions in Alta California?
a.
Gaspar de Portolá
c.
Junípero Serra
b.
Juan Crespí
d.
Fernando Rivera y Moncada
 

 2. 

How did the Spanish learn about the coast of Alta California?
a.
from an Indian map painted on the walls of a cave
b.
from charts made by Francis Drake
c.
from maps that Cortés took back to Spain
d.
from a sea expedition led by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
 

 3. 

In which bay did the explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno claim to have found a good harbor for a port?
a.
San Francisco Bay
c.
Humboldt Bay
b.
San Diego Bay
d.
Monterey Bay
 

 4. 

Where did the Spanish believe the Strait of Anián was located?
a.
in the northern Caribbean Sea
b.
at the southern tip of South America
c.
in the northern Pacific Ocean
d.
between the Philippines and New Spain
 

 5. 

Why did Spanish explorers want to find the Strait of Anián?
a.
to find an easier route to California
b.
to make trading with Asia easier
c.
to cross the Sierra Nevada
d.
to ship captured Indians back to Spain
 

 6. 

Why were most supplies sent to Alta California by sea?
a.
because the land routes were controlled by California Indians
b.
because Alta California had many good harbors
c.
because no land routes had yet been discovered
d.
because the land routes were too difficult
 
 
Choose the term that best completes the sentence.
 

 7. 

Indians new to Catholicism, who were called ____, had to give up their traditional beliefs.
a.
presidios
d.
missionaries
b.
ocean currents
e.
neophytes
c.
pueblos
 

 8. 

Most of the ____ in California were Franciscan priests, who taught Catholicism and Spanish ways of life to the Indians.
a.
presidios
d.
missionaries
b.
ocean currents
e.
neophytes
c.
pueblos
 

 9. 

Spanish ships sailing from New Spain to the Philippines depended on ____ to speed them on their way.
a.
presidios
d.
missionaries
b.
ocean currents
e.
neophytes
c.
pueblos
 

Essay
 
 
Answer the question in the space provided.
 

 10. 

What did the Spanish do to encourage people to settle in the pueblos?
 

 11. 

Why did the Spanish have difficulty getting settlers to move to the pueblos?
 



 
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