Why Did the Spanish Struggle to Colonize Arizona and Texas

question 40

Multiple Choice

Why did the Spanish struggle to colonize Arizona and Texas?

• A) The Spanish had no interest in those territories.
• B) The Indians of those territories thwarted Spanish efforts to establish Catholic missions.
• C) Anglo-Americans had dominated the territory since the early eighteenth century.
• D) The Pope did not recognize those territories as areas of Spanish influence.
• E) France had already colonized those territories.

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