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b) He founded a chain of missions
He founded nine of California's Spanish missions
The answer to your question is D.
Loyalists or Tories are the people who did not want to leave the rule of Britain in the American Revolution. They fought on the side of Britain instead of the Patriots or Whigs [ppl who did want to leave British rule]
The 1898 Treaty of Paris ending the war gave Cuba its independence and also ceded important Spanish possessions to the United States—notably Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the small island of Guam. The United States was suddenly a colonial power with overseas dependencies.
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/superpower
