Spanish Exploration
Motivated Spain to explore the Americas, and Texas?
What is God, Glory, Gold
Who sarted the first Mission in East Texas (Mission San Francisco de los Tejas)
Fray Damian Massanet
Country that began establishing missions
What is Spain?
Protect the Missions
Presidio
Most Texas rivers are found flowing into the….
Gulf coastal Plains
Why was the Adams-Onis Treaty important?
It established the borders between Spanish Territory and the U.S.
Wrote a letter to the Governor of French Louisiana urging the French to start a mission in East Texas because the Spanish would not
Francisco Hildalgo
Place where Spain began establishing missions
What is Texas?
A Roman Catholic priest who teaches Christianity and spreads the Catholic faith by working in Spanish Missions.
Friar
San Antonio was founded in 1718. What was important about its location at that time?
It was midway between the Spanish settlements on the Rio Grande and the missions in East Texas which made it easy for missions to get supplies.
Reason the Spanish to begin exploring East Texas?
What is they heard rumors that the French were already there.
Started Mission San Jose & San Miguel de Aguayo (Mission San Jose) in San Antonio, which became the most successful Texas Mission
Antonio Margil de Jesus
Major event from this era in 1718
What is founding of San Antonio de Valera (the Alamo)
Spaniards living in the Spanish colonies who were born in Spain
Peninsulares
Rio Grande, San Antonio, Ranching, Catholicism, and Tejano are all expamples of what culture?
Spanish Influence on Texas
What event motivated the Spanish to return to Texas and build missions?
The French started to claim land in Texas.
Started in 1690 by Fr. Damian Massanet
San Francisco de los Tejas
What major event happened in 1803?
Lousiana Purchase
What was the economic theory that a nation's power is based on resources and wealth gained from its colonies?
Mercantilism
What are the reasons the Mission San Francisco de Los Tejas failed in East Texas?
The Natives did not want to convert to Catholicism
Crops were failing
Diseases were killing the Tejas
What are language, culture, music, clothes
First mission in San Antonio; the chapel at this mission is the site of the Battle of the Alamo
San Antonio De Valero
How did the natives react to mission lifestyle?
What is they didn't like it at all?
People of Mexican heritage who consider Texas home.
Tejano
The primary reason the Spanish government supported the mission system in Texas was to
Strengthen its control of Texas due to French settlement