One of the primary goals of the Spanish in Texas was to conv…

One of the primary goals of the Spanish in Texas was to convert the Natives to Catholicism. During the late 1600s and early 1700s, the Spanish created a series of “missions”- sites on which the Spanish could Christianize and assimilate the Indian people while forcing them to grow crops and other manual labor tasks to sustain the mission. The efforts in Texas to Christianize the Natives largely failed for what reason.