OUTLINE
SPANISH TEXAS
I. Early
explorations, 1500s
A. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, 1528
B. Franciso Vásquez de
Coronado, 1540
C. Luis de Moscoso, 1542
II. New
Mexico, 1590s-1680
A. Pueblo revolts, 1680
1. Texas Indians affected
2. Corpus Christi de
Isleta founded
III. The
French, 1680s
A. La Salle
B. Fort St. Louis, 1685
IV. Spain
responds, 1680s-1690s
A. Alonso de León
B. San Franciso de los Tejas and other East Texas
missions, 1690
C. East Texas abandoned,
1693
V. East
Texas again, 1716-1719
A. Nacogdoches area
B. Natchitoches area
C. San Antonio founded,
1718
D. East Texas abandoned
again, 1719
VI. More
mission attempts
A. East Texas/Louisiana
missions rebuilt, 1721
B. East Texas partially
abandoned again, 1731
C. Central Texas
missions, 1740s-1760s
1. San Sabá, 1757-1758
VII. Retrenchment,
1760s-1770s
A. Louisiana ceded to Spain, 1763
B. East Texas missions abandoned once and for all,
1770s
VIII. Tejano society
A. Spanish Texas in 1800
1. Nacogdoches
2. La Bahía (Goliad)
3. San Antonio
B. Economic and military weakness
IX. The
Spanish Wars for Independence, 1810-1821
A. filibusters
B. independence won
X. Legacies
of Spanish Texas
A. physical features
B. literature
C. livestock
D. agriculture
E. cities
F. architecture
G.religion
H. legal practices
1. rules of judicial procedure
2. land and water law
3. family law