Spanish Colonization

Which of the following was characteristic of the Spanish Colonial Era in Texas?

• Forts were built to protect tribes

• American Indian tribes were discouraged from settling Texas

• Missions were built to confirm Spanish land in Texas

• Spanish explorers negotiated treaties to trade and travel safely in Texas.

Which group viewed the construction of new missions with suspicion?

• Catholics

• Native American Tribes

• Conquistadors

• Anglo Settlers

What does the term "indigenous" mean?

• Lonely
• Slave
• African
• Native

True or False?
Spain only became interested in Texas when the French began trying to colonize in East Texas.

• True
• False

True or False?
The Friar was in charge of converting the Native Americans to Catholicism?

• True
• False

True or False?
The presidios were built to bring in more Native Americans to the missions?

• True
• False

True or False?

Spain set up missions in the Coastal Plains region.

• True

• False

God, Gold, and Glory - 

• Reasons for exploration and colonization
• Reasons for spreading democracy 
• Reasons for staying in your own country
• Reasons for escaping government

Francisco Hidalgo - ?

• reported Texas to Spain
• cooperated with the French to bring missions to East Texas
• missed the Mississippi River and landed at Matagorda Bay
• established the first mission in San Antonio

Who led an expedition into East Texas to claim land before the French could?

• Damian Massanet and Alonso De Leon

• Damian Massanet and Cabeza De Vaca

• Alonso De Leon and Francisco Hidalgo

• Jose De Escandon and Hernando Cortes