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Vocabulary Terms
- Catholicism
- the faith and practice of the Catholic church
- colonization
- one country taking over another area to be used for their benefit
- Criollo
- someone of full Spanish descent
- friar
- member of a religious community of men living under vows to maintain a life devoted to God
- Mestizo
- someone of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
- mission
- a type of government with elected representatives
- missionary
- Spanish settlements designed to convert American Indian tribes to Christianity
- Peninsular
- people born in Spain. They were typically at the top of the Spanish caste system
- presidio
- a Spanish fort or military outpost oftentimes designed to protect the missions
- priest
- ordained minister of a church
- smallpox
- a contagious disease that killed many American Indians during the establishment of Spanish missions
- tejano
- someone of Mexican descent who considers Texas their home
Key People
- Alonso de León
- selected as president of Texas’s temporary government
- Antonio Margil de Jesús
- wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence, which was modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence
- Damián Massanet
- Colonel of the Battle of the Alamo; ordered by Sam Houston to burn down the Alamo but decided to stay and defend it
- Francisco Hidalgo
- commander at Goliad; did not follow Houston’s orders to retreat; was captured by General Urrea; he and his 300 men killed
- La Salle
- although a Mexican-born citizen, this individual supported Texas’ right to influence Mexican law, and commanded a unit at the Battle of San Jacinto
Major Events
- First Missions in Texas
- In 1690, a soldier named Alonso de Leon and a priest named Damian Mazanet led a party of soldiers and priests into Texas in order to establish missions near the Caddos, in a region that was inaccessible by sea and at least 600 miles away from any other Spanish settlement. They established two missions near Nacogdoches. Mazanet wanted only a handful of soldiers to stay in the area so relations between the natives and friars weren’t undermined. The missions quickly fell apart and the Caddos forced the friars out.
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