OFFICIAL Unit 3 REVIEW: Age of Contact/Spanish Colonial

What drove the Americans to Mexican Texas in the 1820's

• cheap land

• gold

• to teach Natives about Christ

Filibuster

• Spain built missions as a way to control the land for their country

• He was spying for the French

• Person who does rebellious acts in a foreign county

Colonial or colonize

• survival using your surroundings

• establish settlements

• to teach Natives about Christ

Landed at Matagorda Bay by accident while looking for the Mouth of the Mississippi

• Hernando Cortes

• Rene Robert Cabelier Sieur de La Salle

• Coronado

Spaniard Damian Massanet ESTABLISHED a Mission in EAST TEXAS because

• the French were building settlements

• to teach Natives about Christ

• La Salle

1803

• Mexican Independence

• Louisiana Purchase

• Pineda mapped the coastline of Texas

Fort St. Luis

• the first French Colony in Texas (1600's)

• Explorers made contact with the New World

• Lasalle

City founded in 1718

• Spain built missions as a way to control the land for their country

• Loss for Guitierrez Magee Expedition

• San Antonio

Age of Contact Era

• Explorers made contact with the New World

• First European to step foot on Texas soil

• the first French Colony in Texas (1600's)

Battle of Medina

• San Antonio

• Person who does rebellious acts in a foreign country

• A Loss for Mexico & THE Gutierrez Magee Expedition