FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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large Native American population there
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to protect the supply route to East Texas Missions
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to counter french influence in that area
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to make the first foothold in tE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Five days later Presidio San Antonio de Béjar (C) was established nearby (Bannon 1979:117). This Spanish community on the San Antonio was intended more to provide a secure way station on the road to the East Texas Missions than to convert the local Native Americans (de la Teja 1995:7).
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Our Lady of Loreto Chapel at the Presidio de la Bahia. Photo by Kathy Alexander. The Spanish Missions in Texas were religious outposts established by Spanish priests and colonial authorities to spread the Catholic doctrine among Native Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first would be to convert natives to Christianity. The second would be to pacify the areas for colonial purposes. A third objective was to acculturate the natives to Spanish cultural norms so that they could move from mission status to parish status as full members of the congregation.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.