Spanish Colonial Era

Missions are

• Religious settlements designed to convert Native Americans
•  military forts designed to protect the missions
• Someone who is part spanish part Native American
• Land agents who sell land to new settlers

presidios are

• Religious settlements designed to convert Native Americans
•  military forts designed to protect the missions
• Someone who is part spanish part Native American
• Land agents who sell land to new settlers

Fray Damian Massanet

• Started missions in San Antonio
• Sent a letter to the French 
• Started the first mission in East Texas
• Is the Father of the Lower Rio Grande

Antonio Margil de Jesus

• Started missions in San Antonio
• Sent a letter to the French 
• Started the first mission in East Texas
• Is the Father of the Lower Rio Grande

Who is considered the "Father of the Lower Rio Grande"

• Damian Massanet
• Antonio Margil de Jesus
• Jose de Escandon
• Francisco Hidalgo

What is a Tejano?

• Someone of Spanish heritage who lives in Texas
• Someone who is mixed Spanish and Native American
• Native American from Texas
• White American

What is a Mestizo?

• Someone of Spanish heritage who lives in Texas
• Someone who is mixed Spanish and Native American
• Native American from Texas
• White American

Why did the Spanish build missions in Texas?

• Christianize the American Indians
• Protect the borderlands
• Represent the Spanish Government
• All of the above

Spaniards called the Hasinai (Caddo), "Tejas," the Caddo word for ____________.

• Enemy
• Explorer
• Warrior
• Friend

The San Antonio de Valero mission became known as the _______________. 

• Chicken 
• Alamo
• San Antonio
• El Camino Real