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30 Cards in this Set
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Angelina |
served as guide and interpreter for Alonso de Leon. |
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Louis de St. Denis |
appointed by French governor to negotiate with Spanish officials |
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Captain Diego Ramon |
commander of the presidio at San Juan Bautista. |
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Father Damian Massanet |
Established the first mission in East Texas. |
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Alonso de Leon |
sent to destroy La Salle's fort in Texas |
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The mission in San Juan Bautista was near |
Rio Grande |
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Presidio is a Spanish |
military outpost |
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In 1699, the French established a colony on the Gulf Coast at |
Biloxi |
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Los Adaes |
was the first unofficial capital of Texas |
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province |
a district within a country |
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Goliad |
present-day site of La Bahia mission and presidio |
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San Antonio de Valero |
mission know today as the Alamo |
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Arroyo Hondo |
by 1727, the unofficial boundary between the Spanish and French territories in Texas |
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The Apaches asked Spanish officials to build a mission at Santa Cruz de San Saba for |
protection from the Comanches |
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In 1719, settling in East Texas halted because |
war broke out between Spain and France |
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Aguayo moved Presidio Nuestra Senora de los Dolores to |
the Angelina River |
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Missions for the Tonkawa people were started along |
the San Gabriel River |
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Presidio San Antonio de Bexar was founded as a |
settlement between the New Spain and East Texas |
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alcalde |
Chief Official of a Spanish town |
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La Brigadiera |
the name Spanish troops gave Maria Perez Cassiano |
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ayuntamiento |
a city council elected by landowners |
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Tejanos |
people of Mexican heritage who consider Texas their home. |
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Mestizos |
people of mixed Spanish and Native American blood. |
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Most Native Americans in Texas |
refused to accept mission life. |
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Most Spanish soldiers in Texas were |
also settlers. |
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San Antonio was different from other Spanish towns in |
people had a voice in government. |
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The largest settlement and by 1772 the capital of Spanish Texas was |
San Antonio. |
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To increase population of San Antonio, Spanish authorities brought settlers from |
the Canary Islands. |
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Spanish officials decided to reoccupy East Texas in order to |
keep it from the French |
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This contributed to the failure of the San Francisco de los Tejas mission |
disease, drought, and the Tejas' rejection of the Catholic religion. |
