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Do Now. Complete the Worksheet you were handed at the Door. Objective. SWBAT identify the causes and effects of the War for Texas Independence through a Multimedia Presentation. Spanish Settle Texas. Original inhabitants of Texas: Native Americans
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Do Now Complete the Worksheet you were handed at the Door
Objective • SWBAT identify the causes and effects of the War for Texas Independence through a Multimedia Presentation
Spanish Settle Texas • Original inhabitants of Texas: Native Americans • Spain: Claimed Texas based upon explorations in 1500’s: Did not settle • 1689: Spanish discover fort, start to settle Texas
Mission System • Mission: small settlements designed to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and make them loyal Spanish subjects • 1600-1700: 24 missions set up • Most Native Americans: Reject missions
Turn Books to page 303 • Read paragraph titled “The Mission System Ends” • Answer the following question in your notes: Why did the Mission System End?
Group Do Now • Knowing how and why the Spanish Mission system died down, if you were the United States, how would you go about annexing Texas?
Objective • SWBAT identify the causes and effects of the War for Texas Independence through a Multimedia Presentation
Moses Austin • 1820 • Texas Venture: Proposed to Spanish to build colony in Texas • Died before he could start his colony, but Son Stephen F. Austin took over
Stephen F. Austin’s Colony • 1823: Colony Established • Called San Felipe de Austin • 1824: 300 families settle in Austin, 1800 people • 400 are slaves
Click the link for the Reading • Stephen F. Austin