1. Missions and Settlements

2. Missions always built close to a river if possible
- Large common area
Native American Garden
Where food is stored

3. Purposes Mission Settlement Presidios
1) Spread Christianity to the American Indians & ) teach the Spanish way of life.
Missions introduced livestock, fruits, vegetables and industry into the Texas region.
Settlement
Towns occupied by American Indians.
Presidios
protected the missions and guarded the land around to be sure there weren't any invasions.

4. Mission life Every day started with prayer Breakfast
Children attend school (including classes in religion)
Women wove cloth, molded pottery, and cooked
Men worked in the fields, learned carpentry, or blacksmithing
Supper
Religion classes for the adults
Prayers

7. Father Damián Massanet
The viceroy agreed, and in the spring of 1690 Father Massanet, three other friars, and about 100 soldiers set out for East Texas.
The first Spanish mission in East Texas 1690 named San Francisco de los Tejas
It was a crude log building and contained only a few simple furnishings.

8. San Francisco de los Tejas

10. José de Escandón
He is known as the colonizer and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander.
He founded over twenty towns or villas and a number of missions in the colony.
He is called the "father" of the lower Rio Grande valley.

11. Antonio Margil de Jesús
Founded missions in San Antonio: San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.
They were most successful of all Texas missions.
Margil is one of the most famous missionaries to serve in Texas

12. Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo

13. Francisco Hidalgo Founded the mission San Juan Bautista.
Wanted to expand missions beyond the Rio Grande.
His efforts led to the permanent European occupation of Texas in 1716.

14. Mission San Juan Bautista