EQ: What events and issues caused multiple territorial claims for
Texas by European nations? 2B
Main Ideas & Guiding Questions - Quick Study
Vocabulary
Underneath these C Notes –
define terms and circle key words
Mortar Words
Era
Chronology
Settlement
Exploration
Colonization
European
Perspective
Physical environment
Impact
Purposes
Brick Words
Missions
Presidio
Catholic
Territorial claims
Convert
Three G’s
Anglo
In available work space under these
C-notes or on your work space
answer the following.
Real World Example
How is France coming into Texas
after Spain, like someone sitting
in your normal seat in the
cafeteria? Were you there first
yesterday? Are there really
assigned seats? What argument
would you make to claim your
seat again? What argument
would the student who got there
first today make to keep your
seat? Do you have an “issue?”
NOTES and Drawings for In Depth Details, Explanations and Evidence for Summation
EVENT - Explorers
• **IN 1519, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda was the first explorer to map
the coast of Texas.
• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his writings – shipwrecked and
captured by Native Americans, he ended up traveling across Texas,
and was the first person to write about, and report about Texas.
This got back to Europe.
Issue 1 - Reasons for Exploration
• Gold – the Spanish heard that there was gold in Texas by Native
Americans. The Spanish wanted to increase their global wealth.
• Glory – expeditions were led by conquistadors looking for
wealth and fame for themselves.
• God – the Catholic Church agreed to help support the expeditions to
convert Native Texans to Christianity and increase wealth of the
Church.
Issue 2 - The conflicting territorial claims between France and
Spain
• Conflicts reinforced Spanish claim to Texas, which led to more
missions and presidios in Texas.
• Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle was given ships, colonists,
and soldiers by the French King to start a new colony at the mouth of
the Mississippi. He landed at Matagorda Bay instead. He tried to
establish a colony, but failed because of attacks by Native Americans
and disease. LaSalle left the colony to find a way home and was
believed to be shot by his own men. The survivors were found by
Spanish soldiers. Spain feared that France would try to claim Texas
and renewed their colonization efforts in Texas.
EVENT 2 - The “Chicken War” – French soldiers were sent to capture a Spanish
mission in East Texas because of a conflict between France and Spain in Europe.
The French soldiers looted the mission and captured a Spanish soldier. The French
leader was thrown from his horse because of the chickens in the courtyard. The
Spanish soldier was able to escape. The story was exaggerated and embarrassing
to the Spanish viceroy. The Spanish became more determined to hold Texas.
****In your work space, draw two icons that can help you tell the difference
between the Explorers Pineada and Cabeza de Vaca