Early Exploration of Georgia

Question 1

What did Spanish explorers believe would most "help” American Indians?

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if American Indians looked, talked, and worshipped like the Spanish

Question 2

What was most beneficial about building a mission in the Okefenokee Swamp?

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The swamp offered good protection.

Question 3

Spanish missions were built for the specific purpose of

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teaching American Indians to accept European values.

Question 4

Which explains the decline of the Spanish missions?

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The missions were targeted in raids by the British, pirates, and tribes.

Question 5

Read the journal passage from one of de Soto’s expedition members.We continued our march until we came to two rivers, which we crossed by making rafts of pine trees, and entered a province called Otoa, where we found a much larger village than we had yet seen. We captured some Indians, to serve us as guides and interpreters.

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The American Indians felt attacked and abused because they were captured.

Question 6

What caused American Indians to relocate in the late 1600s, causing a decline in missions?

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They were forced to move to make room for new settlers.

Question 7

A main reason Spain wanted to travel to the Americas was to spread

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Christianity.

Question 8

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sixteenth

Question 9

The main reason many American Indian groups moved west was to

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escape the imposed system of repartimiento.

Question 10

Where in Georgia did the Spanish build a fort and several missions to assimilate Mocama Indians?

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on Cumberland Island

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