How did the Spanish use missions during colonization? Missions were built to stop raids by Europeans. Missions served as places for creating charters. Missions protected Protestants from outside attacks. Missions housed farms that produced food for settlers.
The Spanish built missions so that they could convert Native Americans to Catholicism. The Spanish and Natives lived and worked in these missions. There were a set of rules, and if the Natives broke them, they would be punished.
