'Spanish Missions in California'

'In the late 1700s, Spain treasured its power and wealthiness to grow. It also wanted to keep other(a) European countries pop of their territory. Building settlements on the chute would booster them meet these goals. The perpetrations were soma by the Spanish in 1769 in order to colonize the territory they had claimed in Alta California. There had been mingled things discussed throughout the age regarding what to do with this territory but zilch was ever through and it was also rocky reaching the coast of Alta California from Mexico. The Spanish king at long last decided to do something with the territory when he heard rumors that Russian fur trappers were wretched far and farther down the beach from their base camps in Alaska and were rumored to have been seen surface present day San Francisco in 1760. Spain did enthral a a few(prenominal) settlers to help plunge a habituation but actually few state wanted to let the trip.\nMissionaries wanted to shift the Indians to the Roman Catholic faith. By 1823 at that place were 21 missions. The Spanish settlers create forts and towns nearby. The Spanish use forts to value the missions. The missions were built in places where there was late water, rich soil, and resources for create and farming. Missions varied tremendously in their scotch and spiritual success. well-nigh missions could not offer themselves, and others flourished and developed truly fertile handle and huge herds of cattle. In seeking to let out both universality and European methods of agriculture, the missions encourage the Indians to establish their settlements conterminous by, where the priests could give them religious instruction and superintend their labor, thus colonizing the territory.\nIndians did some(prenominal) of the work to build missions. The first missions were built of wood and afterwards adobe was used to build missions. At first the Indians came by choice, the Missionaries used strategi cal tactics to jack off Indians to come to the missions and a good deal offered gifts. As the mission system ... '