FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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It was located near French Trading Posts
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It was a midway point between the Rio Grande missions and the missions in East Texas
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It was located on the Rio Grande and was known as the “Gateway to Spanish Texas”
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It was located on land claimed by the French
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beginning in 1718, five mission communities formed along the San Antonio River. These missions were at the northern frontier of New Spain, a territory of the Spanish Empire. These Spanish colonial missions transformed local ways of life by introducing a new religion, farming, and settled communities.
Detailed explanation-2: -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).
Detailed explanation-3: -Known today as The Alamo, this Spanish mission complex was the first of the San Antonio missions founded to convert the local American Indians to Christianity. The mission eventually became a community of Spanish, Mexican, and American Indian Catholics.
Detailed explanation-4: -First, the fields required irrigation and a system could only be set up along the valley’s upper ten miles. Second, the threat of attack from northern American Indians was constant, and the missions needed to be near the presidio and each other for mutual protection.