Section 1
They were intended to convert American Indians to Catholicism and teach them about the Spanish way of life.
Missions
In the 1600s the Spanish settled along the upper Rio Grande in New Mexico. They built missions among the Pueblo Indians as well as ranches and towns,including ,Founded in 1610.
Santa Fe
Ysleta established homes for indians.
Tigua Indians
The group finally came ashore in at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast. While entering the bay, one ship ran aground with valuable supplies aboard. Then another ship returned to France.
February 1685
A Franciscan priest, Father (mas-ah-nay), traveled with him. Although they did not find the French fort, the expedition found two French survivors living among a group of American Indians.
Damián Massanet
Soldiers were to provide protection for their fellow Spaniards. The arrival of the first Spanish in Texas ushered in the.
Spanish Colonial Period
They built missions,towns,ranches in Sanat Fe in.
1610
The group finally came ashore in February 1685 at Matagorda Bay on the coast. Spanish officials then ordered De León back to search for the fort. When he finally found the settlement, he recorded what the Spanish saw.
Texas
He probably reached the Rio Grande before he realized that was west of
Fort St. Louis
Alonso de León and Father Massanet had been impressed by the land and the.
Tejas
The faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic Church.
Catholicism
In 1680 a Pueblo spiritual leader named led a revolt, or revolution, against the Spanish. This Pueblo Revolt forced the Spanish settlers out of northern New Mexico.
Popé
In 1682 French explore René-Robert Cavelier, expanded France’s empire. He canoed down the Mississippi River to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico.
Sieur de La Salle
Hunger and disease killed many settlers. In addition, the colonists had to defend themselves against attack by the Indians, whom La Salle and his men had angered.
Karankawa
The Spaniards called the Indians Tejas after the Hasinai word for “ .”
Friend
To protect the missions from attack, the Spanish built ,or military bases,near missions.
Presidios
Another word for Revolution
Revolt
La Salle named the region Louisiana for his king, After exploring the area, he returned to France and asked the king for permission to establish a settlement near the river’s mouth. La
King Louis XIV
Karankawa Indians attacked and overran the fort in late or . They killed all of the adult settlers and destroyed the fort. Five children were taken captive by the Karankawas.
1688 or 1689
The Spanish set to work building a mission. After only a few days, they finished building De León and Father Massanet soon returned to Mexico, leaving three missionaries and three soldiers at the mission.
San Francisco de los Tejas
Other Spaniards lived on , or ranches. Or another word for ranch.
Ranchos
Among these settlements was , established as a home for Tigua Indians.
Ysleta
The left France in the summer of 1684. It had four ships and about 300 soldiers and settlers. The expedition ran into trouble when Spanish pirates captured one ship.
La Salle Expedition
A Spanish governor, led another expedition in 1689. A Franciscan priest, Father Damián Massanet (mas-ah-nay), traveled with him. Although they did not find the French fort, the expedition found two French survivors living among a group of American Indians.
Alonso de León
In 1691 Father Massanet returned to the mission with the first governor of Spanish Texas.
Domingo Terán de los Ríos