Tuesday October 31, 2007
Daily Agenda
• Notes Chapter 4
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• Open your textbook to p 74.
• Read Spain Reacts section
• “The Spanish had learned that they would
need to pay more attention to Texas if they
wanted to control it.”
• How could Spain control the land?
Ch 4 Section 1 Missions and Presidios
• What is a Mission?
• What did the Spanish hope to accomplish with
the mission/presidio system?
• Did any succeed/fail?
Notes continued…
• Missions – settlements in Indian territory
– Started by Friars (church leaders)
– Taught Indians
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Christianity
Language
Customs
Farming methods
Hoped Indians would become loyal subjects of
Spain = (Behave!!!)
Notes continued…
• Mission system had worked in Mexico
• Missions paid for by Spain, after farming was
successful Missions would pay for themselves.
First Missions
• 1682 Corpus Christi de la Ysleta near El Paso
• Tigua Indians
San Francisco de los Tejas
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Established near present day Crockett, Texas.
Caddo Indians
Lasted 3 years
Spanish gave Caddo diseases.
Caddo thought disease was from baptism
water.
• Caddo didn’t need Spanish, They were doing
fine!
Los Adaes
• Near modern Texas/Louisiana border
• Help Spanish watch out for French
• French raided mission, finding nothing but
chickens.
• Missionaries/Soldiers retreated back to San
Antonio de Valero
San Antonio de Valero
• The most successful - 1718
– Water – San Antonio River
– Farming
– Ranching
La Bahia
• 1721
• Near present day Goliad
• Helped defend coast
Santa Cruz de San Saba
• Near Present-Day Menard Texas
• Built for Lipan Apaches
• Apaches would convert if Spanish would
protect them from Comanche.
• Mission built in Comanche territory…Lipan
wanted to start a war between Spanish and
Comanche.
• Comanche attacked in 1758 and killed
missionaries and burned down mission.
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Section 1 Review
• What is a Mission?
• What did the Spanish hope to accomplish with
the mission/presidio system?
• Did any succeed/fail?