<p> Name:______Date:______History:______</p><p>Missions</p><p>______First missions in Texas ______ Friars in ______founded the first permanent settlement of ______in Texas—the mission of ______de la ______Ysleta—located near present-day ______. ______ Most Spanish activity during the 1690s was in ______, near French Louisiana. ______ Fearing La Salle’s arrival in ______would produce French ______, Spanish officials worked hard to establish ______Spanish colonies. They built ______, military ______called ______, and towns in lands ______occupied by Native Americans. ______ When the Spanish heard of La Salle’s fort in ______, they set ______out to destroy it. Alonso de Leon led the ______, only to ______find the fort was ______. ______A Tejas Mission ______ ______led his troops northeast toward the Colorado ______River where they met the ______people, ______whom they called ______a word meaning ______ Damian Massanet, a Catholic church official, was granted ______permission by the ______of New Spain to ______start a ______among the Tejas people in 1690. ______ The mission ______was a log ______building located a few miles west of the ______River near ______the present-day town of ______. ______France threatens again ______ In 1699 France made another attempt to claim the lands ______around the ______River by establishing ______a colony on the ______Coast at Biloxi, Mississippi. ______ The French were not interested in conquering ______or ______the Native Americans to Catholicism. ______ They wanted to open ______, so they befriended the ______Native Americans and began making large profits by ______exchanging ______, ______, and ______for furs and ______skins. ______ They also wanted to trade with the Spanish, but the Spanish ______law prohibited ______from trading in New Spain ______colonies. ______ Without the Spanish government’s knowledge, Father Hidalgo ______wrote a letter to the French governor in ______asking that ______the French establish a ______among the Tejas. ______ The French recognized this request as an opportunity to open ______. ______ Louis de St. Denis was appointed to negotiate with the ______Spanish officials on the ______. ______ On the way to the Rio Grande, he built a trading post called ______on the Red River. ______ When he arrived at San Jaun Bautista in July of 1714, it ______the presidio’s commander, Captain ______Diego Ramon. ______ Ramon arrested St. Denis and sent him to ______to be questioned by the viceroy. ______ St. Denis told the ______that France had ______intentions of occupying East Texas. ______ The Spanish government did not believe St. Denis and ordered ______that new missions be built in East Texas with the Spanish ______to protect them. ______ Trade between the French and Spanish ______. ______Founding of San Antonio ______ Because of the ______mile journey from east Texas to the ______Rio Grande, the Spanish needed a settlement ______between New Spain and the missions. ______ Spanish officials chose a site on the ______to ______build the ______San Antonio de Bexar in ______. ______ Across the river, Mission San Antonio de Valero was built in ______. This is now known as the ______. ______A day in the life of a mission ______ The natives who accepted the mission life were kept busy from ______morning to night by the ______friars. ______Each day started with prayer. ______ After breakfast, the children attended ______; the ______women wove cloth, molded pottery, or cooked. The men ______worked in fields or learned carpentry or blacksmithing. ______ After dinner were more ______classes, followed by ______. ______ Food was ______with herds of cattle, sheep, ______and goats guaranteeing a regular supply of meat and milk. ______ ______was popular, including corn, beans, ______cantaloupes, cucumbers, watermelons, peppers, peaches, and ______sweet potatoes. ______ Although some Native Americans adapted to mission life, most ______to stay at the missions. ______Hardships of soldiers ______ Soldiers’ ______included protecting the mission and ______nearby settlements, maintaining ______over the Native ______Americans in the missions, and ______the land for ______. ______ Most of the soldiers were also ______who had ______brought their ______to the military towns and farmed ______and soldiered for a living. ______ Military men were ______equipped and lived in ______poor conditions. ______ They sometimes ______with the Native ______Americans living in the missions (usually unfairly). ______Life in Spanish Texas ______ People living in ____ became farmers, ranchers, shopkeepers, ______shoemakers, fishers, barbers, ______, tax collectors, ______oxen drivers, seamstresses, healers, and servants. ______ ______, people of mixed Spanish and ______Native American heritage, lived in Spanish Texas. ______ A few African Americans living in Texas were ______, but some were slaves. ______ Most men and women were married with ______. ______ The ______(people of ______heritage who ______consider Texas their home) culture was very evident in Texas. ______Why Were Missions Unsuccessful? ______ ______killed many of the mission’s crops, and ______disease killed many of the Native Americans and one ______. ______ The Tejas ______the ______faith ______and resented the Spaniards’ attempts to change their way of ______life. ______ Realizing there was no threat from ______, the Spanish ______decided not to spend any more ______supporting the ______missions so far from the Spanish settlements, so they ______the mission. ______</p>