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Here are the teacher pack items for The Mission-Presidio System:
Overview In this experience, students learn about the goals and structure of Spanish missions and presidios. Next, they explain how missions and presidios helped Spain strengthen its territorial claims and respond to French influence in Texas. Finally, they examine why Spain gradually reduced its support for some missions and presidios. Note that in the experience Spanish Settlement in Texas, students will focus on the historical development of missions. Objectives:
Some of the physical remains of Spanish colonization in the land that is now Texas include missions and presidios. Missions were settlements established by Spanish missionaries to spread Catholicism and extend Spanish influence among Indigenous communities. Presidios were military forts that protected missions and settlements and helped Spain defend its claims to the region. In this lesson, you will learn about the roles these institutions played in Spanish Texas and how they affected Indigenous peoples and Spanish settlers.
Mission Espada Church, San Antonio
Objectives:
What do you already know about Spanish Missions and how they were built?
Discuss with students what they already know about Spanish missions. Clarify that missions were not simply churches. They were communities established by Spanish missionaries as part of colonization. Students may know that missions often included a church, living quarters, workshops, fields, and other buildings. Missionaries attempted to convert Indigenous peoples to Catholicism and teach Spanish customs and labor practices. Indigenous peoples responded in different ways: some lived at missions for periods of time, while others resisted, left, or maintained their own traditions. If presidios are mentioned, explain that presidios were military forts. They sometimes protected nearby missions and settlements and helped Spain maintain control of the region.
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