Spanish Exploration
This Spanish explorer shipwrecked near Galveston while looking for the city of El Dorado
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
When Spain began to develop more land and establish more settlements, it marked an end to Spanish Exploration and began this era
What is the Spanish Colonial Era?
This document did the following:
Created first constitutional gov in Texas
gave Texas certain rights
Santa Anna ignored these rights
led to war and Texas independence
What is the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824?
Who is Moses Austin?
In this era, Spanish missions were established in an effort to convert Native Americans to Christianity
What is the Spanish Colonial Era?
The legend of seven cities made of gold was called this
What is Cibola?
The Spanish had territorial fights over Texas with this European nation
What is France?
Who is Father Miguel Hildago?
This person had a successful colony because he chose land with trees and access to rivers and streams. AND he spoke Spanish and worked well with the Mexican government.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
The main negative effect of the Spanish missions in Texas was this.
What is diseases killed Natives?
In 1519 Alonso Álvarez de Pineda was the first European to do this.
What is Map the Coastline of Texas?
To protect their claims to land in Texas against French settlement, the Spanish built these 3 things.
What are missions, presidios, and towns?
Mexico utilized Empresario land grants in order to help populate this area.
What is Texas?
This person was an Empresario, leader of the Old Three Hundred, and founded San Felipe on the Brazos River.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Father Fransisco Hidalgo, Damian Massanet, and Antonio Margil de Jesus all had this same type of job.
What are missionaries?
What are religious leaders?
Hernando de Soto's expedition traveled across Texas and other parts of the Americas to find this.
What is Gold?
Spain eventually gave up trying to colonize this area after many missions were unsuccessful.
What is Texas?
Bonus points: What is East Texas?
The Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824 outlawed this
What is slave ownership?
What is slavery?
The Mexican government encouraged settlement of Texas by providing these to empresarios/ Anglos
What are land grants?
The main goal of this specific group of people (not a nation) was to spread the Catholic faith to native Indians.
Who are Spanish Friars?
This Spanish Explorer spent roughly 8 years living with Texas natives.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
What is Spanish influence on Texas?
The state of Coahuila y Texas was created as a result of this
What is the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824?
The Mexican government used empresario grants to increase this.
What is population in Texas?
The native people had their own religion, beliefs, and ways of doing things. This led to the failures of many __________ in Texas.
What are missions?