Unit 3 & 4 Test

Question 1

What are the three reasons the Spanish have for expanding their empire?

Answer 1

Gold, God, Glory

Question 2

Who began looking for a west water route to Asia in 1492?

Answer 2

Christopher Columbus

Question 3

Where did Columbus think he landed?

Answer 3

He thought that he landed in the Indies

Question 4

Where did Columbus actually land?

Answer 4

An island in the Bahamas

Question 5

Why did Europeans want to reach Asia?

Answer 5

Asia was a land rich in spices, tea, silk, and porcelain.

Question 6

What were Europeans looking for in the 1400s?

Answer 6

Europeans began looking for an all-water route to Asia.

Question 7

What was the time frame that all of these explorers were looking for land?

Answer 7

1400s - 1600s

Question 8

What did they call their empire in the Americas?

Answer 8

New Spain

Question 9

Which explorer sailed from Cuba to the east coast of Mexico and established the settlement of Veracruz?

Answer 9

Hernan Cortes

Question 10

Why did he turn his attention away from Veracruz?

Answer 10

He learned of the existence of wealthy and powerful Aztec Empire

Question 11

What was Tenochtitlan?

Answer 11

The Capital of the Aztec Empire

Question 12

What ended up happening after Cortes arrived in Tenochtitlan?

Answer 12

Fighting erupted between the Spaniards and the Aztecs.

Question 13

What happened to the city of Tenochtitlan?

Answer 13

It lays in ruins

Question 14

____ were built to house soldiers who protected settlers.

Answer 14

Presidios

Question 15

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

Answer 15

privateer

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Stockade

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Missions

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Viceroy

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Provinces

Question 20

Spanish ____________ helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain.

Answer 20

Conquistadors

Question 21

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

Answer 21

navigate

Question 22

What did Pineda do that was very important for Texas Exploration?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Who was the first European to see the TX coast?

Answer 23

Pineda

Question 24

What year did Pineda see the coast of TX?

Answer 24

1519

Question 25

Did Narvaez expedition go well?

Answer 25

No

Question 26

What happened to Narvaez in his expedition?

Answer 26

He died in a hurricane.

Question 27

The survivors of _______'s expedition washed ashore in TX

Answer 27

Narvaez

Question 28

_____________'s survivors of his expedition were stranded in Texas

Answer 28

Narvaez

Question 29

Who was the First European to explore Texas

Answer 29

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 30

___________ Shipwrecked on the Texas Coast

Answer 30

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 31

___________'s journey began the Age of Contact

Answer 31

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 32

____________ Wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers.

Answer 32

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 33

Searched for Cibola and Quivira

Answer 33

Coronado

Question 34

Discovered Palo Duro Canyon

Answer 34

Coronado

Question 35

_______ Established Fort St. Louis

Answer 35

La Salle

Question 36

____________ Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France

Answer 36

La Salle

Question 37

_____________________ was Murdered by his own men

Answer 37

La Salle

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Question 39

______ Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.

Answer 39

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Question 40

__________ was a Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas

Answer 40

Damian Massanet

Question 41

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

Answer 41

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

Question 42

____________ Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.

Answer 42

Antonio Margil de Jesus

Question 43

__________ was the Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Answer 43

Jose de Escandon

Question 44

More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements.

Answer 44

Jose de Escandon

Question 45

Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas.

Answer 45

Jose de Escandon

Question 46

Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

Answer 46

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo

Question 47

Reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War.

Answer 47

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo

Question 48

Which region separated Spanish land?

Answer 48

New France

Question 49

Which European rival was the greatest threat to Spain’s North American lands? Why?

Answer 49

Europe’s biggest rival was New France. France was their biggest rival because they bordered unoccupied Spanish Texas. It would have been fairly easy for the French to take that land.

Question 50

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Answer 50

Fort St. Louis

Question 51

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 51

Los Adaes

Question 52

First Mission in East Texas

Answer 52

San Francisco de los Tejas

Question 53

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Answer 53

San Antonio de Valero

Question 54

place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 54

Quivira

Question 55

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Answer 55

San Antonio de Bexar