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What was the objective to the first English men to enter Tennessee?
The primary objective of the long hunters was the acquisition of furs for the lucrative international fur market.
What were the Spanish explorers trying to find?
Soon after Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492, the Spanish began to hear stories of civilizations with immense riches. Hoping to claim this wealth and territory for Spain and themselves, conquistadors, or “conquerors,” sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.
Where was the first Spanish Mission in Texas?
The first of these, founded (1690) near what is now Weches, Tex., failed because of the Indians’hostility, but others were founded in east Texas after 1716, and some of them prospered. San Antonio became the home of several missions, including San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo).
Where did the Spanish settle in the United States?
Spanish missions (in U.S. history) Between 1687 and 1711 the missionary and explorer Father Eusebio Francisco Kino established many missions in northern Mexico and Baja California as well as some in southern Arizona, the most notable of which was Mission San Xavier del Bac. When the Spanish began to settle in California,…
What was the purpose of the San Antonio Mission?
San Antonio de Valero Mission was established May 1, 1718, as the Spanish created the Presidio of San Antonio de Béxar and the attached civil settlement, which is present-day San Antonio. The community was to be a way-station on the journey from the Rio Grande to the East Texas missions.
Why did the Spanish build the missions in Florida?
To protect these missions as well as the mines and ranches of Mexico from attack from the north, the Spanish established presidios — fortified garrisons of troops. Franciscan priests founded a series of missions in Florida after 1573, mainly along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.