What's that word?
A building that housed the military soldiers that protected the missions.
What is a presidio?
He founded the most successful mission in Texas.
Who is Antonio Margil de Jesus?
These were the first people to settle San Antonio.
Who are the Canary Islanders?
Missions, Presidios, Ranchos
What would be the best title for this list?
A. Ancient Civilization Family Structure
B. Spanish Settlement of Texas
C. French Colonization of Texas
D. Reasons for Colonization
What is B (Spanish Settlement of Texas)?
Which activities took place in Catholic missions in Texas during the 18th century?
A. Priests led Indians through their daily activities
B. Indians learned to become better hunters
C. Indian chiefs ordered the removal of priests
D. Indian priests conducted local rituals
What is A (Priest led Indians through their daily activities)?
A term given to a person that is of a blended race... Native American and Spanish.
What is mestizo?
He founded the first mission and presidio at San Antonio.
Who is Antonio de Olivares?
This is the purpose of Dia de los Muertos, The Day of the Dead.
What is to honor family members that have passed?
These special settlements were created by Spanish priests to convert Indian tribes to Christianity. In the center of each of these settlements there was usually a large building with an inside patio. At the opposite end was a Catholic church.
What is a mission?
The chapel at Mission San Antonio de Valero is now known by what name?
To change one's ideas or religion.
What is convert?
He was a Catholic priest born in Spain. He established missions among the Caddo Indians in East Texas.
Who is Francisco Hidalgo?
San Antonio was established because it was the...
What is the midpoint between East Texas missions and the Rio Grande.
One of San Juan Bautista’s missionaries was Father Hidalgo, a friar who had known the Tejas people of San Francisco de los Tejas. For over 10 years he had asked Spanish officials to rebuild the mission for the Tejas. Desperate, Hidalgo wrote a letter to the French governor in Louisiana, asking the French to build a mission among the Tejas. The letter was sent in secret, without Spanish officials’ permission.
Why did Hidalgo write a letter?
What is he asked the French to build a mission among the Tejas?
This was a source of disagreement between friars and soldiers at missions.
What is treatment of Native Americans?
An irrigation ditch that was hand dug to provide water to the mission fields.
What is an acequia?
He was a Catholic Church official. He founded the first mission in East Texas.
Who is Fray Damian Massanet?
An acequia is an example of ________, because ____________.
(Is an acequia an adaptation or modification? Why?)
What is a modification, because ditches were dug to allow water to flow to the mission crops.
The following things occurred in this type of settlement:
1. Natives must become Catholic
2. Natives must speak Spanish
3. Natives must follow the Spanish culture
What is a mission?
This is what the Native Americans blamed their illnesses on at Spanish missions.
What is holy water?