Unit 3: New World

Question 1

______were built 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

a 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

viceory

Question 6

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

Answer 6

province

Question 7

Spanish_______helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain.

Answer 7

Conquistador

Question 8

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

Answer 8

navigate

Question 9

Discovered new lands thought to be Asia and inspired explorers to sail West.

Answer 9

Christopher Columbus

Question 10

Conquered the Aztec Empire for Spain and built Mexico City in New Spain. What person and what year?

Answer 10

Cortes
1519

Question 11

First European to see the TX coast and mapped the Texas coastline. Also, drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico that were used by other explorers. What person and year?

Answer 11

Pineda
1519

Question 12

Survivors of his expedition washed ashore in TX and survivors of his expedition were stranded in Texas.

Answer 12

Narvaez

Question 13

Wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers. Had a shipwrecked on the Texas Coast, and started the Age of exploration.

Answer 13

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 14

First European to explore Texas. He discovered Palo Duro Canyon and was searching for Cibola and Quivira.

Answer 14

Coronado

Question 15

He was murdered by his own men. He established Fort St. Louis and claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France.

Answer 15

La Salle

Question 16

Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas

Answer 16

Farther Francisco Hidalgo

Question 17

Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas and wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.

Answer 17

Damian Massanet

Question 18

Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.

Answer 18

de Jesus

Question 19

Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas. More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements. Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Answer 19

Jose de Escandon

Question 20

Reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War. Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas. Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War.

Answer 20

Aguayo

Question 21

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Answer 21

Fort St. Louis

Question 22

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 22

Los Adaes

Question 23

First Mission in East Texas

Answer 23

San Francisco de
los Tejas

Question 24

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Answer 24

San Antonio de Valero

Question 25

place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 25

Quivira

Question 26

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Answer 26

San Antonio de Bexar

Question 27

Which region separated Spanish land?

Answer 27

New France

Question 28

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

Answer 28

France was Spains greatest rival because France was push in spain territory and they could easly take Spainish TX.

Question 29

What were the two main reasons missions failed?

Answer 29

Disinterest and disease

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Protection from thier enemies.

Question 31

The year San Antonio was founded.

Answer 31

1718

Question 32

Fort st. Louis was a La Salle's old fort, what did the spainish call it.

Answer 32

La Bahia, It means bay in spainish

Question 33

1519

Answer 33

Pineda sees and maps the Texas coast.