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The Europeans explored for 3 reasons 1. Gold 2. Glory 3. God
Columbus was looking for an alternate route to Asia so they could trade faster
The majority of the explorers came from Spain and France
A conquistador is the leader of an exploration
Cortes Hernando tor down tenochtitlan and founded new Spain -
Pineda leads several expeditions to map the west coast of the Gulf of Mexico. He ends up making the first map of the American west coast.
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Cabeza de face was captured by the Avavares tribe when he was ship wrecked.
Diseases killed many natives and explorers because this was the first time they were exposed to it.
When Cabeza arrived in Mexico the people thought he was a God -
Cibola or the seven cities of Cibola were cities that were supposed to have great treasure in them.
Coronado thought Cibola was in Texas because Texas was supposed to have lots of gold
sadly Coronado never found Cibola.
coronado did find a river that went through Texas -
Eventually France started exploring Texas too because of furs
While in Texas La Salle discovers the Louisianna river delta. -
Fort St. Louis was built near Arenosa creek.
La Salle founded fort st Lois
There were two reasons fort St. Louis failed. One the AI's there died before 10 years were up. Two, they never learned anything
La Salle was shot to death in 1687 -
Rubi's mission was to help changes in Mexico
The leader of Mexico sent him
Rubi recommended to treat the AIs better because the system was not working -
The purpose of a mission is to convert natives to Spanish or French citizens
Most missions were led by Friars
The spainish built most of the missions
Most missions converted natives to Catholicism
Most missions fail because of disease and Starvatio
Most failed because of plague
Normally smaller forts protected missions -
A filibuster is some one who wanted Money or land and was willing to fight
some other filibusters are father Hidalgo and Jean Lafitte
Jean Lafitte was a French pirate who raided spainish ships and stole treasure -
The Louisiana purchase made relations worse between the two
After that the only countries that owned parts of North America were the USA, Spain, and Mexico -
The spainish granted land because his friend who was a politician convinced the spainish
Before Austin could establish his colony he was robbed and had to walk home. He got sick and died later on. -
Mexico gained there independence from Spain
The federal it's established the Mexican independence
Texas was joined with guerra -
There goal was to secede from the Mexican Rebublic
They were upset with laws
The rebels saw the Mexican army coming and retreated -
The expedition was seeing the amount of Tejanos and Americans
Mixer y Terrain was sent to do population statistic
He recommend end more Tejanos for the possibility of a rebellion -
emprosarioss were leaders of colonies
SFA established his colony around where San antonio is today.
Mexico made his colony have at east 300 people
The old 300 were the original colonists. They had to have an important skill and have no connection with the USA army.
Some challenges of setting up the colony were when the colonists taken by sea landed in the wrong place and native attacks
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U.S. Could not come Texas anymore
Empresarios had to keep count of the races
Mexicans got free land and ride to Texas
Slaves could no longer be bought or traded but if you had a slave from before you could keep him
New Forts were established due to attacks
If you imported something it had extra taxes -
The convention was about Texas rebellions
A politician from Texas