Spanish Exploration & Colonization

Question 1

____ were built to house soliders.

Answer 1

Presidios

Question 2

____ were built to house people and families.

Answer 2

Towns

Question 3

____ were built to convert Native Americans to turn to Catholicism and to do Spanish culture.

Answer 3

Missions

Question 4

Small part of a military force sent to scout.

Answer 4

Detachment

Question 5

A armed boat

Answer 5

privateer

Question 6

High ranking official

Answer 6

viceroy

Question 7

To work around something

Answer 7

navigate

Question 8

Spanish people who colonize and claim land

Answer 8

conquistador

Question 9

Conquered Aztec Empire for Spain

Answer 9

Cortes

Question 10

Mapped the Texas coastline

Answer 10

Pineda

Question 11

Died in a hurricane

Answer 11

Narvaez

Question 12

Stranded on the Galveston Island; crashed on the Narvaez expedition

Answer 12

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 13

Discovered land thought to be India

Answer 13

Columbus

Question 14

Discovered Palo Duro Canyon

Answer 14

Coronado

Question 15

Established Fort Saint Louis

Answer 15

la Salle

Question 16

Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.

Answer 16

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Question 17

Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas

Answer 17

Damian Massanet

Question 18

More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements

Answer 18

Escandon

Question 19

Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.

Answer 19

Jesus

Question 20

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas.

Answer 20

San Antonio de Bexar

Question 21

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 21

Los Adaes

Question 22

First Mission in East Texas

Answer 22

San Francisco de
los Tejas

Question 23

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Answer 23

San Antonio de Valero

Question 24

Place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 24

Quivira

Question 25

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Answer 25

Fort St. Louis

Question 26

What were the two main reasons missions failed?

Answer 26

Native American disinterest and disease

Question 27

What is the main reason Native Americans chose to live the in the missions?

Answer 27

Food and security

Question 28

First European to see the TX coast

Answer 28

Pineda

Question 29

He founded 20 settlements in southern Texas.

Answer 29

Escandon

Question 30

Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

Answer 30

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Question 31

Wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers.

Answer 31

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 32

Survivors of his expedition were stranded in Texas

Answer 32

Narvaez

Question 33

Founded 20 settlements in Southern Texas

Answer 33

Escadon

Question 34

Built Mexico City in New Spain.

Answer 34

Cortes

Question 35

Drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico that were used by other explorers.

Answer 35

Pineda

Question 36

Inspired explorers to sail west

Answer 36

Columbus

Question 37

Searched for Cibola and Quivira

Answer 37

Coronado

Question 38

Reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War

Answer 38

Aguayo

Question 39

He claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France

Answer 39

la Salle

Question 40

San Antonio de Valero was founded

Answer 40

1718

Question 41

Father of the lower Rio Grande Valley

Answer 41

Jose Escandon

Question 42

Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War.

Answer 42

Aguayo

Question 43

His journey began the Age of Contact

Answer 43

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 44

Murdered by his own men

Answer 44

la Salle