Too many wars
1773
Spain began again to establish missions in Texas.
Because Spain owned it until the Louisiana Purchase which gave the US MOST of its current land mass.
St. Nada
Spain was indifferent and unworried about Tejas until they discovered an abandonded French settlement in East Tejas and immediately place a series of missions there to reinforce their claim.
to scare off the french,Spain had a plan.the goverment would establish catholic misions nesr indian settlements in east Texas.
* The first European settlement was by France called Fort Saint Louis near Matagorda Bay. * Spain then established a series of East Texas missions. * The first significant Anglo-American group was the First 300 on the Brazos. * By 1834 Texas had an estimated 30,000 Anglos within its borders.
The Spaniards increased their dedication to the settlement of Texas. They began to build mission and Presidios. Spain and France had very different reason for interacting with the Native Americans and for settling in Texas. These differences eventually lead to a mutual ignoring of each other.
The reason the settling of East Texas halted is because war broke out between Spain and France. Texas would eventually become a U.S. state in 1845.
to make them onto good citizens and to convert them into catholics
End French expansion westward.
A Spanish officer who was sent by the Spanish government to investigate the need for missions in East Texas after Great Britain defeated France in The Seven Years' War in 1763.