texas history

Question 1

___________were builts to house soldiers who protected settlers.

Answer 1

presidio

Question 2

When the ships reached Haiti, a Spanish _______________ captured one of the French vessels.

Answer 2

privateer

Question 3

La Salle and his men built Fort St. Louis. It was not truly a settlement but a ______________.

Answer 3

stockade

Question 4

__________ were founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the Spanish culture and religion.

Answer 4

missions

Question 5

Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain was _________________ Antonio de Mendoza.

Answer 5

viceroy

Question 6

Coronado was a young noble who had been named governor of one of the _______ of New Spain.

Answer 6

provinces

Question 7

Spanish _____________________ helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain.

Answer 7

conquistador

Question 8

La Salle led an expedition to _________________ the entire length of the Mississippi River.

Answer 8

navigate

Question 9

When was Christopher Columbus’s expedition?

Answer 9

1492

Question 10

Christopher columbus took off from his expedition from?

Answer 10

Spain

Question 11

What did Christopher Columbus inspire other explorers to do?

Answer 11

sail west

Question 12

What did Christopher Columbus do on his journey?

Answer 12

Discovered new lands thought to be Asia

Question 13

Where did the Hernan Cortes’s expedition take off?

Answer 13

Spain

Question 14

When did the Hernan Cortes’s expedition take off?

Answer 14

1519

Question 15

What did Hernan Cotes conquer?

Answer 15

Aztec Empire

Question 16

What did Hernan Cortez build?

Answer 16

mexico city in new spain

Question 17

Where did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda expedition take off?

Answer 17

Spain

Question 18

When did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda expedition take off?

Answer 18

1519

Question 19

What did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda map?

Answer 19

the texas coastline

Question 20

What did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda see first?

Answer 20

the texas coast

Question 21

What did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda draw?

Answer 21

maps of the gulf of mexico

Question 22

Where did Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition take off?

Answer 22

Spain

Question 23

When did Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition take off?

Answer 23

1527

Question 24

Where did the survivors of Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition go?

Answer 24

survivors of his expedition washed ashore in TX

Question 25

Where did the survivors of Panfilo de Narvaez's expedition get stranded?

Answer 25

Texas

Question 26

When did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's expedition take off?

Answer 26

1528

Question 27

Where did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's expedition take off?

Answer 27

Spain

Question 28

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca wrote stories about what?

Answer 28

Texas

Question 29

Where did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca get shipwrecked?

Answer 29

Texas Coast

Question 30

What did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's expedition begin?

Answer 30

Age of Contact

Question 31

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first to do what?

Answer 31

explore texas

Question 32

When did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition take place?

Answer 32

1540

Question 33

Where did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition take off from?

Answer 33

Spain

Question 34

What did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado discover?

Answer 34

Palo Duro Canyon

Question 35

What did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado search for?

Answer 35

Cibola and Quivira

Question 36

When did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle expedition takes off?

Answer 36

1684

Question 37

Where did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle's expedition takes off?

Answer 37

France

Question 38

Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle got murdered by who?

Answer 38

his own men

Question 39

What did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle claim?

Answer 39

the Mississippi River Valley for France

Question 40

What did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle establish?

Answer 40

Fort St. Louis

Question 41

What did Damian Massanet want to build and he also opened this mission.

Answer 41

a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas

Question 42

What did Father Francisco Hidalgo ask the French?

Answer 42

to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

Question 43

Damian Massanet was a priest that build what?

Answer 43

San Francisco de los Tejas

Question 44

What did Antonio Margil de Jesus open?

Answer 44

the most successful mission in East Texas.

Question 45

Jose de Escandon was the father of what?

Answer 45

Lower Rio Grande Valley

Question 46

How many people lived in Jose de Escandon settlements?

Answer 46

more than 6,000

Question 47

What did Jose de Escandon found?

Answer 47

20 settlements in the southern Texas

Question 48

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo was sent to do what?

Answer 48

drive the French from east Texas after the chicken war

Question 49

What did Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo establish?

Answer 49

Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.

Question 50

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo reopened what?

Answer 50

missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War.

Question 51

Fort St. Louis

Answer 51

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Question 52

Los Adaes

Answer 52

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Question 53

San Francisco de los Tejas

Answer 53

First Mission in East Texas

Question 54

San Antonio de Valero

Answer 54

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Question 55

Quivira

Answer 55

place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Question 56

San Antonio de Bexar

Answer 56

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas