FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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A mission was for protection and a presidios was built for keeping out the French
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Missions were built to teach the Native Americans and the Presidios were built to teach the Anglo Americans
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Presidios were built to help the Spain control the Native Americans and missions were built to teach and convert the Anglo Americans
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A Presidio is for protection and a mission was for education
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Detailed explanation-1: -A presidio protected a mission. Presidios were forts that offered safety from unfriendly American Indians. They also helped control the American Indians in the missions. Soldiers from the presidio caught American Indians who ran away from the mission.
Detailed explanation-2: -The government of New Spain settled the northern borderlands of Mexico and present-day Texas with missions, frontier communities, and presidios. Presidios were colonial frontier military settlements intended to secure and defend Spain’s claim to territories occupied by indigenous populations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its purpose was to provide military support for the mission and later settlements until these communities could support themselves. The main purpose of a presidio was to protect the colonists from Indian attacks. Presidio soldiers were also expected to bring back any natives who ran away from the mission.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Spanish Colonial era in Texas began with a system of missions and presidios, designed to spread Christianity and to establish control over the region.