Transcript Spanish Colonial Era

Why is history divided
into eras???
So it is easier to identify cause &
effect of the great events and
great people in history!
1. Led Spain’s expansion into South TX
2. He was the military commander &
Governor of the area that is today
Laredo.
3. He sent settlers to the land between the
Rio Grande and the Nueces River.
4. He moved LaBahia mission to Goliad.
•A priest at mission San Fransico de los
Tejas, who cause Spanish to be suspicious
of the French.
•In 1810 gave a famous speech encouraging
independence.
Fray Damián Massanet
• Convinced the viceroy of New Spain to
colonize East Texas and convert the Caddoes
to Catholicism
• 1690 – Alonso De León and Massanet were
sent with several priest, and about 100
soldiers to colonize East Texas.
• Resulted in many missions in East Texas even
though they were failures
Antonio Margil de Jesús (early 1700s)
• Spanish Franciscan priest
• Founded several missions in East Texas
including Nuestra Señora de los Dolores and
San Miguel de los Adaes
• Due to the problems in East Texas, he moved
to San Antonio and founded San Jose y San
Miguel de Aguayo, one of the five missions in
San Antonio today
Vocabulary
• Mission – a settlement founded to spread
Christianity to the people of the area.
• Colonization – claim for and control by a
distant nation.
• Civil Settlements – a village made up of
people who were neither priests nor soldiers.
More Geography!
• The environment influences the success o
settlement
• Physical and geographic features also
influenced where presidios were built.
• What was the greatest factor???
• Rivers (water source)
Mission vs. Fort or Town
• Missions were set up by the Spanish to covert
indians to christianity
• Towns sometime grew around a mission –
sometimes not….
• 1682 Spainards establish the 1st Texas mission
at Corpus Cristi.
• When looking at a picture, how do you tell the
difference in a mission or a fort?
The Spanish built missions in Texas to teach
Native Americans about the Roman Catholic
Church and the culture of the Spanish. The
missions were protected from attacks by
having a presidio built next to the mission. A
presidio was a fort housing Spanish soldiers to
guard the mission.
A villa was located between a mission and a
presidio. A villa was a small town around the
mission and presidio that provided goods and
services to both. A new culture was born with
the missions. The new culture was a mix of
Spaniards and Native Americans. Much of the
Spanish culture still exists in Texas today.
Missions
• Church
• Rooms for religious classes
• Storage buildings
• Housing for the missionaries and some of the
Native Texans
Daily Life in a Mission
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Prayer, classes, and training in religion
Chores
Training in trade
Crops / sheep, goats, and cattle
Learned about government
Problems with the Mission System
• Disease
• Indian rejection of mission life
• Indians used the missions as protection
against
• Presidios – soldiers were not paid well /
soldiers had to buy their own supplies at very
high prices / soldiers and friars disagreed
about how to treat Native Americans
Legacy of the Missions
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Ranching industry
Cowboy (vaquero)
Bronco / lasso
Names – every river in Texas (except the Red
River) has a Spanish name or a name that was
derived from the original Spanish
What event happened in 1685 that caused
the Spaniards to speed
up the building of the missions?
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de
LaSalle established Fort St.
Louis at Matagorda Bay, and
thus formed the basis for
France's claim
to Texas.
The “Camino Real” or “Royal Highway”
was the major supply route from
Mexico into Texas and made the
missions in San Antonio the largest
settlement in Spanish Texas.
More Vocab……
• Missionary – one who is sent to do religious
or charitable work in a territory or foreign
country.
• Vaquero – Spanish word for cowboy
• Presidio – fort
Amarillo – In Spanish it means yellow. This was the
color of the soil of the area and the beautiful
wildflowers. Name by early settlers in this area.
Rio Grande – In Spanish it means “Big River”
Vaquero – Spanish word for cowboy
Rodeo – A sport that is based on the skills of
cowboys or vaqueros
Home – Hacienda
Presidio – Fort
Aceqias – wells (aquifer)
Adobe – brick
Arch – Style of architecture
Tortillas – Flat bread made of corn
Tamales – Dumpling made of corn flour and meat
Corridos – ballad
Frescos – Mural painting found in Catholic churches
Tejano Music – Music that originated from the cultural
convergence of Spanish, German, Czech, and Polish
music and instruments
Dog Run – or dog trot style houses/log cabins were built
like two separate houses with a covered porch area in
between. They were built this way for air circulation.