Why Did The Spanish Failure To Colonize Texas

Hundreds of years went by, countless mistakes were made, yet the Spanish never seemed to learn from their failure, but the question is, why did they fail. Since France began to snake their way into texas, The Spanish thought it would be a good idea to colonize Texas with missions. Though they were able to create missions, the missions were of no use. The three main reasons the missions failed are, the missions were unsuccessful in completing the task they were to perform, the missions were often attacked and high casualties, and the missions failed to populate Texas.

The Spanish failing to convert natives, was their first step to failure. The main reason missions were built, was to convert natives. If no natives were converted, then why were the missions even here. According to document c, “ .. not a single indian has been converted.” and ”... the priest had not one indian he could minister.” These two pieces of evidence tell you that no indians have been
The main reason missions were established, were so that Texas could populate Texas and scare France off, but they were able to scare France, but not populate Texas. According to document B, 1519 non-indians lived in the missions in 177 and 1790 altogether, compared to the 2,000,000 non-indians living in the rest of the americas. As you can see 1519 is nothing compared to 2,000,000. Also to add to that Spanish Texas’ population, instead it decreased. This is a sign saying missions were not able to perform the job they were to perform.

Missions not being able to complete their job, not being able to populate texas, and missions often being attacked are all contributing factors to Spanish Texas almost failing. I think Spanish Texas failed because many missions closed down after about a year. I mainly think this is because, the Spanish opened many missions to get France to leave Texas. All of this combined tells you, Spanish Texas