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American Indians/Explorers/Missions - Unit 3

1.What role did explorers play in the settlement of Texas?

2.What were the causes and effects of missions and settlement in Texas?

3.How were the native cultures of Texas similar and different?

4. How do we know what really happened in the past?

5. What is Texas worth to the Spaniards?

Natural Texas and its People

Gulf: Karankawa, Coahuiltecans

Plains: Cherokee, Apache, Comanche, Kiowas

Puebloan: Jumano, Tigua

Southeastern: Caddo

What to know? 

Nomadic vs Sedentary  Hunter vs Gatherer  Shelter Age of Contact 

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda: Mapped Texas Coastline 1519 

Cortez: Founding of Mexico City 1519 

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: First written documentation of Texas exploration 

Coronado: Search for gold 

La Salle: French founder of Fort St. Louis and renewed Spanish interest in East Texas

Spanish Colonial 

Establishment of Catholic Mission/Presidio: Corpus Christi de Ysleta, San Antonio de Valero, San Antonio de Bexar, San Francisco de los Tejas (Fray Damian Massanet); El Camino Real; Nacogdoches 

1718 Founding of San Antonio 

Purpose of Missions: Convert Natives to Spanish lifestyle (i.e. Catholicism); settlements developed where there were missions and presidios 

Reasons for failure of missions: Resistance from Natives, Spanish abandonment, French withdraw, raids by American Indians, starvation/lack of supplies, diseases  Spanish Influence: ranches, vaqueros, introduction of horses and longhorns, celebrations/fiesta, food, music, architecture, names of cities, rivers etc., religion, arts

(Prior Knowledge Vocabulary)  Nomadic Unit Vocabulary  Sedentary  Adobe  Conquistadores  Presidio  El Camino Real  Vaqueros Assurance Words  Expedition  Mission  revolt

Key Dates  1519—Mapping of Texas coast; first mainland Spanish settlement  1718—Founding of San Antonio

Mexican National Era - Unit 4

1. What happens when cultures collide?

2. How and why do beliefs change?

3.How and why did different groups settle in Texas?

4.How did Mexican independence affect Texas?

5.Who were the major empresarios and where did they establish settlements?

6.How did the Louisiana Purchase affect Texas?

Mexican National 

Mexican Revolution o Battle of Medina o Jose Gutierrez de Lara o Tejano Involvement 

1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain (Mexico continues as a monarchy until 1823) 

Republic of Mexico 1823 

Constitution of 1824:

Merger of Texas and Coahuila; State Colonization Law of 1825 (Coahuila y Tejas); Slavery

Empresarios 

Moses Austin—Spanish Empresario Contract 

Baron de Bastrop – Negotiates on behalf of Moses Austin; first representative of Tejas in the state of Coahuila y Tejas 

Stephen F. Austin (Father of Texas)—Continues his father’s work by seeking Mexican Empresario Contract 1821; Anglo settlement (largest) Old 300; San Felipe de Austin 

Erasmo Seguin—Negotiates on behalf of Stephen F. Austin 

Martin de Leon—Mexican National Settlement; San Patricio 

Green DeWitt—Anglo Settlement (2nd largest) 

Hayden Edwards – East Texas/Nacogdoches Contrast Purposes for Settlement 

Spanish: God, Glory, Gold 

Mexican: Land, resources, and better way of life 

Anglo: Land and better way of life (U.S. Panic of 1819)

(Prior Knowledge Vocabulary)

Empresario Unit Vocabulary  Provisions  Centralist  Department  Repeal  Dowry  Filibuster  Depression  Federalist Assurance Words  Militia  Land grant

Key Dates

1803—Louisiana Purchase

1821—Mexican independence from Spain

1824—Mexican Federalist Constitution