Exploration of Texas Unit. 3

Question 1

______ was built to house soldiers

Answer 1

Presidio

Question 2

Who was the first European to see the coast of Texas?

Answer 2

Pineda

Question 3

Who discovered the Palo Duro Canyon?

Answer 3

Coronado

Question 4

Why was France’s attack on San Miguel de Linares de los Adaes mission called the chicken war.

Answer 4

The soldiers ran away and acted like chickens, The courtyard chickens alerted them that the French were coming.

Question 5

What is a privateer?

Answer 5

An armed shipped owned by private individuals used in war.

Question 6

What was the purpose of a mission?

Answer 6

To convert and educate the native people about Spanish culture and religion.

Question 7

What is a viceroy?

Answer 7

An official who reigns over a place.

Question 8

What was fort St. Louis?

Answer 8

A French settlement near Matagorda Bay.

Question 9

What was the Unofficial capital of Spain

Answer 9

Los Adaes

Question 10

First mission in Texas

Answer 10

San Francisco de Los Tejas

Question 11

San Anotonio de Valero is..

Answer 11

Mission chapel known today as the Alamo.

Question 12

Place on the great plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 12

Quivira

Question 13

San Antonio de Bexar was..

Answer 13

the settlement between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Question 14

What region separated Spanish Land?

Answer 14

New France

Question 15

When did Cristopher Columbus begin his journey

Answer 15

1492

Question 16

What did Christopher Columbus do?

Answer 16

Inspire people to explore west and discovered new land thought to be Asia.

Question 17

What was the year of Hernan Cortes

Answer 17

1519

Question 18

What settlement did Cortes establish first

Answer 18

Veracruz

Question 19

What did Cortes do?

Answer 19

Conquered the Aztecs capital for new Spain and built Mexico City on top of it.

Question 20

What was the year of Pineda?

Answer 20

1519

Question 21

What was Pineda supposed to do?

Answer 21

Find the Northwest Passage sea route to Asia

Question 22

What did Pineda end up doing?

Answer 22

First European to see the Texas coastline and map the gulf of Mexico which were used by other explorers.

Question 23

What was Narvaez trying to do?

Answer 23

Explore the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and find gold?

Question 24

What did Narvaez actually do?

Answer 24

Got lost in Florida trying to find gold, his ships left him, and he was stranded in Florida to starve to death.

Question 25

What happened to the survivors of Narvaez's Expedition?

Answer 25

The got washed ashore in Texas.

Question 26

How did Cabeza de Vaca get to Texas?

Answer 26

He was one of the survivors from Navaez's expediton.

Question 27

What did Cabeza de Vaca do?

Answer 27

He began the age of contact and was the first European to explore Texas and write about it.

Question 28

What did Francisco de Coronado do?

Answer 28

Searched for Cibola and Quivira, the cities of gold and found a village.

Question 29

What did La Salle do?

Answer 29

He was a horrible navigator, who went to the wrong place and established St. Louis which failed and lead to the murder of La Salle.

Question 30

What did Antonio Margil de Jesus do?

Answer 30

He opened the most successful missions.

Question 31

Who was Damian Massanet?

Answer 31

A Priest that built Sand Francisco de los Tejas.

Question 32

What did Damian Massanet want to do.

Answer 32

Build A mission among the Caddo People of East Texas.

Question 33

Who asked the French to reopen San Francisco de Los Tejas?

Answer 33

Father Francisco Hildago

Question 34

Who had 20 settlements with over 6000 people in them?

Answer 34

Jose de Ascandon

Question 35

Who was the father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley?

Answer 35

Jose de Ascandon

Question 36

What did Marques de San Miguel De Aquoyo do?

Answer 36

Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.

Question 37

What did Marques end up doing instead of driving the French away.

Answer 37

Reopened the missions that had been abandoned during the chicken war.