Study Guide for Events of Texas History Test Two

1718 - 1763

1756 - 1763

1765 - 1767

1803

1814

1810

1821

1821

The goal was to turn / convert Indigeous people to Christianity

1. Spanish Governement: The goal was to expand the Spanish Territory. 2. The Catholic Church: Goal was to convert Natives to Christianity.

The Spanish provided food in the missions while the Natives adapted to mission life by learning the Spanish Language and the Catholic religion.

The complex expansive irrigarion systems used in the missions

A Spanish Fort

Process of transfering control of the Spanish Missions from the Catholic Church to Civil Authorities and Private individuals.

The Casta system is a system that categorizes people based on their racial and ethnic background.

The four major categories are Peninsulares (Spaniards), Criollos (Spanish Americans), Indios (American Indians), and Mestizos (Amerindian and Spanish mix)

1. Mountain and Basin 2. Northern Central Plain 3. Great Coastal Plains 4. The Great Plains

A group of missions founded in by Franciscan monks in the Spanish colonies that forces Native people to convert to Catholicism and adopt Spanish agriculture and culture.

A conflict between France and Great Britain that began in 1754 as a dispute over North American land claims in the region around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This conflict eventually spread into other parts of world, including Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Curious about the state of his overseas territory, the king of Spain sent trusted officials to report on conditions in Spanish America. In 1766 the Marqués de Rubí began a tour of the presidios of New Spain. As he traveled through Texas the next year, Rubí grew concerned about conditions there.

The Louisiana Purchase extended United States sovereignty across the Mississippi River, nearly doubling the nominal size of the country.

a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the US and defined the boundary between the US and Mexico (New Spain).

The Cry of Dolores occurred in Dolores, Mexico, on 16 September 1810, when Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church bell and gave the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence. The Cry of Dolores is most commonly known by the locals as "El Grito de Independencia".

The Plan de Iguala also known as The Plan of the Three Guarantees or Act, drafted on February 24, 1821, proclaimed Mexico's independence from Spain, social and political equality for all inhabitants of Mexico regardless of birthplace, and Roman Catholicism as the official religion.

The Treaty of Córdoba established Mexican independence from Spain at the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence.

A Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar. He believed Indians were not inferior to their oppressors. He knew that 'all the peoples of the world are men' – rational human beings, part of a single common humanity. 'For all people of these our Indies are human … and to none are they inferior,'

Philip Nolan was a mustang trader and freebooter in the Spanish province of Tejas. Nolan has become recognized as the first of many filibusters that eventually helped to free Texas from Spanish and Mexican rule. He is often credited with being the first Anglo-American to map Texas, but his map has never been found.

James Wilkinson was an American soldier, politician, and Spanish secret agent. He disputed that Rexas was part of the Louisiana Purchase.

Was an American filibuster who led an unsuccessful expedition to seize control of Spanish Texas between 1819 and 1821.

Aguayo retook eastern Texas from New France without firing a shot. He established or reestablished seven missions and three presidios, and quadrupled the number of Spanish soldiers stationed in Texas.

He was American explorer for whom Pikes Peak is named, led an expedition (sent by James Wilkinson) into the Texas territory, through the southwestern portion of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase in 1806-7.

He led (Gutierrez-Magee Expedition) an early filibustering expedition against Spanish Texas. He was a disgruntled US military officer who joined Mexican rebels against Spanish rule.

Mexican rebel leader who fought for Mexican indepenence from Spain in the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition.

Fought for democracy against Spanish monarchy and rejected DeLara's leadership. He was a filibuster commander of the Republican Army of the North

Was a priest who started the Independence for Mexicans by the "Cry of Delores". He is generally regarded as the “Father of Mexican Independence.”

Final leader of the Mexican revolution. He signed the treaty of Cardoba in 1821.

A person who starts a war without the state's permission.