Spanish Settlements

1. Spanish Settlements

2. There were many Spanish settlements being built in Texas because of the ___ poking around. • ___ were founded which were just religious communities. • ___ were created in order to protect the missions and the Spanish towns called ___. • On the Colorado River in Texas a man named Alonso De Leon, a Spanish guy, landed and met a Native American girl named ___ and called her and her people the ___ which means friend. • They even made a mission for them!!!!!!!!!!! • This was abandoned because __ killed the Natives and ___ killed the crops and the Natives hated Christianity and the Spanish.

3. After La Salle had tried to get into Texas another man came around called ___. • All he wanted to do was to start ___ with the Spanish. • The French had their land and form east of Texas in what is ____. • The Spanish freaked out and captured him and went back to build more ___ and ___ in Texas after they had failed before that. • Also, the French were a lot nicer to the ___ and they made tons of money trading with them. • The French were interested in making ___ instead of spreading __.

4. The Spanish had freaked out and took __ and ___ to take them and a bunch of families to live in the woods of ___ Texas. • They settled in what would be ___ Texas. • The Spanish also wanted to start to build in between Mexico City and Nacogdoches so they built Presidios and Missions in ____. • They put them there because the people in East Texas would ___ without them. • The mission of San Antonio de Valero was built which would later become the ___. • In 1719 Spain went to war with ___ so they did not build stuff for a while.

5. They started to get farther into East Texas to the point that they built a mission in ___. • They built a post in Louisiana called ___. • There were 100 soldiers, their families, and 6 large ____. • St. Denis, who had done ___ for the Spanish, led a French fort just a few miles away but did not try to take it. • Texas became a province of New Spain and had as its capital ___. • The first capital of Texas was in ___. • Eventually with a bunch of missions, presidios, and towns Spain said it cost too much so they decided to ___ in Texas. • They moved all their stuff to ___ and kept it as their main base.

6. ON the Plains the Native Americans ___ the missions and presidios. • They ___ to them in order to get the Spanish to leave. • The Spanish threatened the way of ___ for the Indians. • Even though the Spanish were hated the Spanish ___ were eager to spread the religion of ___. • Instead of spreading God they just spread ___. • Good job there Friars.