Spanish Conquest Of Texas Dbq

No ports, shallow water, hostile natives. No wonder the Spanish nearly failed to settle Texas. In 1682, the Spanish first arrived in Texas, hoping to successfully colonize it. They built their first mission, and continued to settle and colonize Texas. The main reasons Texas almost failed as a Spanish colony is because of rough geography, unstable population, very poor government and uncontrollable hostile natives.

One of the most important factors of Spain nearly failing to settle Texas is geography. The water surrounding the Texas coast are very shallow, have no ports and made it very difficult to do anything by water (Doc. A).The water was not the only geographic concern, The Texas triangle also contributed (Doc. A), it made it difficult to settle in that area because of its extreme temperature and dryness (Doc. A). That also made very difficult to travel to Mexico if they needed supplies.
A), hostile natives attacked settlers, mission natives, and a soldier(Doc. D), many missions struggled to bring in Spanish settlers because they weren’t able to support and provide for the new coming settlers(Doc. C). The only successful mission was San Antonio,or Bejar(Doc.