Author: Ricardo-F Gonzalez

Spanish Settlement Notes
Texas History
Student Name:_____________________________________

Fort St. Louis: 1685
French ______________ ran aground on Matagorda Bay (they thought they were near the Mississippi R.) The _______________ ship wrecked, another ship went back to ______________, this left the colonist with little supplies. LaSalle and some soldiers left to find supplies. The colonists were running out of___________, dying from diseases, and being attacked by Karankawa Indians. LaSalle finally came back with no supplies and to find more than half the colonists _______________. He made two attempts to go east to find the Mississippi R. and to follow it up to _____________- on the second trip fighting broke out and he was_____________________. Meanwhile the Karankawa Indians led one last attack on Fort St. Louis, they killed all the _____________ and took 5 children as captives. This attempt by the French to colonize the area made the Spanish turn their ________________to East Texas.

Pueblo Revolt: 1680
When ____________had ruined crops and people in the New Mexico missions were _______________. The Pueblo Indians tried to go back to their old religious beliefs. The Spanish tried to __________ them and fighting broke out. The Spanish and their Indian allies fled across the ________ _______________. The Spanish allowed them to start a new mission in Texas- this mission was _________________________________.
Missions in west Texas were doing very ___________ but when the French built a new settlement in Texas the Spanish turned their attention to ___________ Texas.

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San Francisco de las Tejas: 1690
Alonso DeLeon and Father Massanet had led an earlier expedition to try and find Fort St. Louis. While looking for the fort they kept a record of the land and the _______________ they encountered. They returned to Mexico City, and told the viceroy about the _____________ and their desire to set up missions there. Spanish officials eager to stop the French from taking the region allowed the _________ to return to East Texas with missionaries and 100 soldiers. They chose a site west of the Neches River and built _________________________. DeLeon/Massanet had to return to Mexcio City so they left 3 soldiers and 3 __________________ to carry on their work at the mission. When Massanet and Domingo Teran de los Rios, the new Spanish gov. of Texas returned they saw fighting, drought, floods, supply shortages, food shortages, _____________, and angry Tejas Indians. On Oct. 25, 1693 the decided to leave. They buried the church _________________and burned the mission to the ground. 1st E. Tx. mission____________.

New East Texas Missions: 1716
Spanish __________________ questioned St. Denis, who told them of his mission to find Hidalgo and establish trade. Most likely they did not believe him but the ______________ of the French entering Texas drove them to re-establish missions in East Texas. Domingo Ramon and St. Denis are ordered to led an expedition of priests, soldiers, civilians, and 3 French citizens to E. Texas. They bring ___________to win back the Tejas Indians. The Spanish build __________________________
_________________ close to the site of the first San Francisco de las Tejas mission. Father Hidalgo is left in _____________. The Spanish then build_________ more missions in E. Texas and Capt. Ramon builds a presidio to _______________ them.

A New French Threat: 1713
________ years after the Spanish had left E. Texas, a priest by the name of Father Hidalgo tries to bring the missions ______________. Spanish officials refused his request so he wrote to the _____________ governor for help. Gov. Cadillac of Louisiana sends ___________
__________________________, an experienced explorer, to E. Texas to find Father Hidalgo, to set up missions and establish ________________. St. Denis does not find Father Hidalgo in E. Tx. So he goes to San Juan Bautista on the Rio Grande where Hidalgo had been working as a _________________. St. Denis arrived with goods for trade- but instead he was _______________ for being a Frenchman in Texas. He is treated well and sent to Mexico City for questioning.

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Problems with the 1st mission in E. Texas:
1. __________________. Too far away
2. settlements too far away- which led to _______________.
3. mission had to turn to the _______________in Louisiana for help.

Answer to the Problems with the 1st mission in E. Texas:
Build an outpost ______________between established Spanish settlements and East Texas missions. The perfect place was ___________________________. Why?
It has a ______ climate- mild winters, not humid summers.
Lots of lush land- well watered by the San Antonio R.
Strong trees– like the ___________________
Central location

San Antonio Settlements: 1718
Martin de Alarcon, the new ______________of Texas, led a groups of ______________ to the area. Father Olivares traveled to the area with a ______________ group. Together they built the mission___________________________. A mile away they built a presidio called ______________________________ and the town of _________________________. The Spanish built ________ more missions along the San Antonio R. Five mission dot the area of San Antonio today they are:
1. _________________________________________
2. _________________________________________
3. _________________________________________
4. _________________________________________
5. _________________________________________
These mission were successful because the Coahuiltecan Indians lived and __________________ in them. Cattle ranching, also, increased their ________________.

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The El Camino Real= “Royal Road”
By 1731, San Antonio was thriving and _______ families from the Canary Islands near Spain came to __________ there. It was the first Spanish settlement to have an organized ___________ government. An important part of linking the East Texas missions/settlements to Mexico City was the __________________________________ or the King’s Highway. It stretched from East Texas through San Antonio to the settlements on the Rio Grande and then on to Mexico City in the south. It was hardly “royal” it was a ________________ road. Often more like a trail than a road, but it served its main purpose to link East Texas with Spanish _______________ and officials.

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