Spanish Colonial Texas

. Some European nations that opposed the growing power of France and its colonies formed the ________ in the late 1600s.

• Grand Alliance

• Countries Against France

• UN

• Allegiance

Before the Spanish Colonial era, Spain’s North American colonies included present-day California through New Mexico and _______

• Florida

• Mississippi

• Texas

• Louisiana

In the late 1710s, establishing missions in East Texas was interrupted when ______ declared war on Spain

• United States

• Mexico

• China

• France

Native Americans lived in the missions primarily to receive _______.

• religion

• food

• protection

• tradition

unofficial Spanish capital of Texas for fifty years from 1722

• Presidio San Antonio de Bexar

• Los Adaes

• San Francisco de los Tejas

• Mission San Antonio de Valero

1718 settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas missions

• Presidio San Antonio de Bexar

• Los Adaes

• San Francisco de los Tejas

• Mission San Antonio de Valero

mission near the Rio Grande known as the “Gateway to Spanish Texas”

• Presidio San Antonio de Bexar

• San Juan Bautista

• San Francisco de los Tejas

• Mission San Antonio de Valero

first Spanish mission in East Texas, established in 1690

• Presidio San Antonio de Bexar

• San Juan Bautista

• San Francisco de los Tejas

• Mission San Antonio de Valero

mission chapel known today as the Alamo

• Presidio San Antonio de Bexar

• San Juan Bautista

• San Francisco de los Tejas

• Mission San Antonio de Valero

Antonio Margil de Jesus

• worked with French explores

• founded the most successful Spanish mission in Texas

• built a settlement by the Rio Grande

• accompanied the first settlers to East Texas