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

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

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

• Chicken 
• Alamo
• San Antonio
• El Camino Real

How did the Spanish respond to the French threat?

• By creating missions along the coast

• By creating missions in East Texas

• By building missions in Louisiana

• By starting missions in West Texas

Many names of cities in TX, such as El Paso, reflect the language and culture of---

• England

• Portugal

• France

• Spain

What was a negative effect of the Spanish Mission system in TX?

• Diseases brought by Spanish Missionaries killed Natives

• Natives were moved to the Coast to make room for Missionaries

• Natives made the buffalo go extinct

• Natives killed all the Missionaries