Age of explration

Question 1

What did Pineda do and when did he do it?

Answer 1

He mapped the Texas coastline in 1519

Question 2

When was San Antonio Founded

Answer 2

1718

Question 3

What was the first mission in East Texas?

Answer 3

San Fransisco de los Tejas

Question 4

What was the name of the French settlement near Matagorda Bay?

Answer 4

Fort St. Louis

Question 5

Who is the Father of the lower Rio Grande Valley

Answer 5

Jose de Escadon

Question 6

What is the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas?

Answer 6

Los Adaes

Question 7

What mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Answer 7

San Antonio de Valero

Question 8

What was the place in the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 8

Quivera

Question 9

Who conquered the Aztec Empire for Spain

Answer 9

Hernan Cortes

Question 10

Who was the first European to explore Texas

Answer 10

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 11

Who searched for Cibola and Quivera

Answer 11

Fransesco de Coranado

Question 12

What explorer was killed by his own men

Answer 12

La Salle

Question 13

What is a Privateer

Answer 13

an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping.

Question 14

What is a stockade?

Answer 14

A fortification

Question 15

What expedition was Cabeza de Vaca on

Answer 15

The Narvaez expedition

Question 16

Who opened the most successful mission in Texas?

Answer 16

Antonio Margil de Jesus

Question 16

Who founded 20 settlements with 6000 people living in them?

Answer 16

Jose de Escadon

Question 16

Who wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East texas?

Answer 16

Damian Massanet

Question 17

Who was the priest that built San Fransisco de los Tejas?

Answer 17

Damian Massanet

Question 18

Who Established Los Adaes the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas?

Answer 18

Aguayo

Question 19

Who reopened missions that had been abandoned during the chicken war

Answer 19

Aguayo

Question 20

Why is the Chicken War called the Chicken War?

Answer 20

Because the Friar and Soldier were acting like chickens by running away from the French when they saw them coming. Also when the French tried to capture the mission chicken making noise distracted the Spanish which gave the Soldier and Friar a way to escape

Question 21

Who discovered the Palo Duro Canyon?

Answer 21

Coronado

Question 22

What is the Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas?

Answer 22

San Antonio de Bexar

Question 23

Who built a presido near Matagorda bay called La Bahia

Answer 23

Aguayo

Question 24

What Mission/Presidio was constantly moving and good for trades

Answer 24

La Bahia

Question 25

The main reasons Europeans wanted to go to the Americas

Answer 25

God, Glory, Gold

Question 26

What was the Aztec Capital named

Answer 26

Tenochtitlan

Question 27

Who saw the glistening cities of gold

Answer 27

Fran Marcos

Question 28

What was the main goal of La Salle's expedition

Answer 28

To form a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi river

Question 29

What was the significance of San Francisco de Los Tejas

Answer 29

It strengthened Spain's claim to Texas and to show that colonies need families to settle the land

Question 30

Who tricked Coronado into believing the cities of gold

Answer 30

El Turko

Question 31

How did Cabeza de Vaca communicate with the Natives

Answer 31

He used Estvanico

Question 32

What was San Juan Bautista's nickname

Answer 32

The gateway to Spanish Texas

Question 33

Why did Spain regain interest in Texas

Answer 33

Because fort St louis was near Texas and they were afraid of France trying to take control of Texas

Question 34

Who secretly wrote the French without Spanish official permission

Answer 34

Father Francesco Hidalgo

Question 35

What Native American tribe helped Cabeza de Vaca

Answer 35

Karankawa

Question 36

What was the main reason missions failed

Answer 36

Native american disenterest and disease