Explorers and Colonization Flashcards
Learn about explorers and colonization (24 cards)
A privately owned ship outfitted with weapons
A privateer
A poorly built fort
A stockade
Highest ranking official behind the king
Viceroy
What was building that housed soldiers called
A presidio
What is a building used to convert Native Americans to Spanish people called
A mission
What was built to house settlers
a town
Discovered new lands thought to be Asia
Christopher Columbus
Conquered the Aztec Empire for Spain
Hernan Cortes
Who was the first European to SEE Texas
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Who was the first European to explore Texas
Cabeza de Vaca
Sent to find to find gold in Quivira and Cibola, tricked by El Turko
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Sent by the French to establish a settlement at the Mississippi River, Murdered by his own men
Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle
Died in a hurricane
Panfilo de Narvaez
Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas, wanted to build a mission for the Caddo People of East Texas
Damien Massanet
Opened the most successful mission in East Texas
Antonio Margil de Jesus
Father of the lower Rio Grande valley, founded 20 settlements in south Texas and 6,000 settlers lived thier
Jose de Escandon
Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War, reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War, established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.
Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo
Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas
Father Francisco Hidalgo
Settlement created by La Salle
Fort St. Louis
First Spanish settlement in East Texas
San Francisco de los Tejas
Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas
Los Adaes
Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas
San Antonio de Bexar
The period of tension in East Texas between Spain and France
The Chicken War
The three countries that owned part of the Americas
France, Spain, and Great Britain
