FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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Spain increased their settlement efforts to counter the French claim in TX
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Fort St. Louis grew quickly into a trade center for Natives
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France declared war on Spain
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The British and French traded Texas for Florida
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although the colony lasted only three years, it established France’s claim to possession of the region that is now Texas. The United States later claimed, unsuccessfully, this region as part of the Louisiana Purchase because of the early French colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. The missions were managed by friars from the order of St.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Spanish, having long been wary of French plans for the Mississippi region, responded immediately to rumors of a French presence on the Tejas coast. Between 1686 and 1691 they dispatched a total of nine expeditions from New Spain (Mexico) to Tejas, four by sea and five by land, to search for the French.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spain’s primary goals in establishing a settlement in San Antonio were to provide travelers “an intermediate point on the long route between… [the missions]…in eastern Texas and those on the Rio Grande” and to provide defense “against any further French designs on the Matagorda Bay region” (Hoffman 1935: 4).