Missions & Presidios
This was the main purpose of Spanish missions in Texas.
What is to convert Native Americans to Christianity and teach them Spanish ways of life?
The explorer who first mapped the Texas coast in 1519.
Who is Alonso Álvarez de Pineda?
Spain’s main rival in Texas during the Colonial Era.
Who is France?
Where La Salle built Fort St. Louis.
What is near Matagorda Bay?
The language and religion the Spanish wanted Native Texans to adopt.
What are Spanish and Catholicism?
A Spanish fort built to protect missions and settlers.
What is a presidio?
A Spanish priest who helped establish missions in East Texas in 1716.
Who is Father Antonio Margil de Jesús?
Year San Antonio was founded as a settlement.
What is 1718?
San Antonio was built by this river
What is the San Antonio River?
Native Americans were taught these skills inside the missions.
What are farming, ranching, and craftsmanship?
The first mission built in East Texas in 1690.
What is San Francisco de los Tejas?
French explorer whose presence in Texas worried the Spanish and led to more missions.
Who is La Salle?
The document in 1821 that officially ended Spanish rule in Texas.
r: What is the Mexican War of Independence (Treaty of Córdoba)?
The largest Spanish settlement in Texas by the late 1700s.
What is San Antonio?
A typical building material used to construct Spanish missions in Texas.
What is adobe (mud bricks) or stone?
This mission, founded in San Antonio, later became known as the Alamo.
What is Mission San Antonio de Valero?
Spanish governor who helped establish San Antonio in 1718.
Who is Martín de Alarcón?
The system used by Spain to organize land, missions, and presidios.
What is the mission-presidio system?
Region where most missions were built in Texas.
What is Central and East Texas?
Spanish ranches introduced this animal to Texas, which later became central to cowboy culture.
What is cattle?
The reason many East Texas missions failed in the early 1700s.
What is conflict with Native Americans, French threats, and disease?
The Native American group most resistant to mission life in Texas.
Who are the Apache (or Comanche)?
The law that forced Spanish settlers to return from East Texas to San Antonio in 1773.
What is the New Regulation of the Presidios?
The purpose of building missions near rivers.
What is access to water, fertile soil, and transportation?
A major cultural legacy of the Spanish Colonial Era still seen in Texas today.
What are place names, architecture, ranching, or Catholic traditions?