Flash Cards
Write a sentence that summarizes the chart. The sentence must include each settlement type and the different purposes.
It is to tell what missions, presidios, and towns are, their purpose, ant what they are mad of.
Do you think history would be different if the French never got lost and had never built a fort in Texas? How would it have been different?
Yes it would have been different because when Spain did thing to to keep Texas away from the French would not have happened.
How is the new way of life different from what native texans are used to?
Natives might have never prayer, natives usually don’t have as many jobs.
What did the missions do to try to fulfill the expectation of the Spanish monarchy that the became self sustaining?
The put in a ton of religious instruction and they gave away free land. That means that more people came to live there.
How do you think the living conditions effected how the soldiers work?
It effected them because the conditions where better and that means healthier soldiers
Leisure activities
Horse ravening, festivals, folk tales, singing
Women’s roles
Helping in the stores, cooked, sewed
Government
Mayor, sheriff, judge
Education
Few teachers, only wealthy family’s where able to by the school books
Who led the fight for Mexican independance
Miguel hidalgo y costilla
What event inspired the fight for Mexican independence?
Heavy taxis, forced to give money to the government
Why did the Mexican people want independence?
So that they can have their on rules and did not have to give away money
Hacienda
A large estate or ranch in Spanish territory
Oppressive
Unjust or cruel due to an abuse of power
Subject
One who is under the authority of a king or queen
