The Mission-Presidio System
A system Spain used to protect Texas from French threats.
What is the Mission Presidio System?
Two powerful tribes that dominated the Texas Plains.
Who were the Apache and Comanche?
The year of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is 1803?
The caste system divided people by this factor.
What is race or ethnicity?
The name for Americans who entered Texas illegally during the independence war.
What are filibusters?
The group Spain hoped to assimilate into Spanish culture through missions.
Who were the American Indians?
The year Spain ended the Mission Presidio System in Texas.
What is 1793?
Country that sold Louisiana to the U.S.
What is France?
This Spanish priest began the 1810 rebellion in New Spain.
Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
One reason filibusters came to Texas.
What is adventure, land, or profit?
The presidios’ main role in the Mission Presidio System.
What is protecting missions and settlers?
Instead of “Spanish Texas,” historians often call the late 1700s region this.
What is Comanchería (Comanche Land)?
The Louisiana Purchase created this problem for Spain.
What are unclear borders with Texas?
The number of years the War for Mexican Independence lasted.
What is eleven?
Some filibusters wanted Texas to become part of this country.
What is the United States?
One major reason the Mission Presidio System failed in Texas.
What is lack of resources and manpower?
Reason weaker tribes sometimes joined missions.
What is protection from stronger tribes?
The United States saw this region as part of their Louisiana Purchase territory.
What is Texas?
The year Mexico gained independence.
What is 1821?
Filibusters sometimes teamed up with this group in Texas.
Who were the Tejanos?
Tribes like the Comanche and Apache often did this to missions.
What is raided or attacked them?
The tribe Spain paid with resources like horses to stop attacks.
Who were the Comanche?
Spain continued to value Texas for this reason, even without firm control.
What is a buffer zone?
Effect of the war on Spanish Texas population.
What is it became even smaller?
The total Spanish population in Texas by the end of the independence war.
What is about 2,000?