FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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He wanted to rebuild the mission at San Francisco de los Tejas.
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He hoped to convert a new group of native peoples.
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He hoped to trade with Native Americans without Spanish permission.
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He wanted to expand the first Spanish mission into a town.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hidalgo asked the governor to help him reestablish the missions in east Texas. The friar, who had been with Massenet and de León at the first San Francisco mission, was angry that the Franciscans had abandoned the American Indians of Texas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hidalgo had long wanted to return to Texas, but his Spanish superiors did not allow it. Finally, in 1711 he took the bold and surprising action of writing to the French governor of Louisiana to ask for help in reestablishing missions in East Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was the beginning of European settlement in East Texas. When Spanish explorers encountered the native people they were met with the greeting “Tejas, ” meaning friend. The heavily wooded area where the mission once stood became a state park in 1957.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1690, De León and Massanet founded the San Francisco de los Tejas Mission. The following year they began an offshoot, Santísimo Nombre de Maria, a few miles away.
Detailed explanation-5: -With more than a hundred soldiers and four other missionary friars-Massanet, Miguel de Fontcuberta, Francisco Casañas de Jesús María, and Antonio de Bordoy-the expedition left Monclova, Coahuila, in March 1690. It went first to Fort St. Louis and burned the buildings.