Unit 3 - Spanish Exploration and Colonization

Question 1

What is a Presidio?

Answer 1

A fort that was built to house soldiers who protected settlers.

Question 2

What is a Mission?

Answer 2

An outpost built to convert and educate native people in Spanish culture and religion.

Question 3

What is a Town?

Answer 3

A settlement built to house settlers.

Question 4

What is a Council?

Answer 4

A group of advisors.

Question 5

What is a Friar?

Answer 5

A Catholic priest who belongs to a religious order.

Question 6

What is a Conquistador?

Answer 6

A Spanish soldier-explorer who sought
personal riches and power, as well as wealth and glory for Spain, in the conquest of the Americas.

Question 7

What is a Viceroy?

Answer 7

An official who rules in the name
of the king or queen.

Question 8

What is a Province?

Answer 8

A district of a colony or
country; similar to a state.

Question 9

What is a Stockade?

Answer 9

A crude fort.

Question 10

What is a Privateer?

Answer 10

A privately owned ship
outfitted with weapons.

Question 11

What is a Canal?

Answer 11

A human-made waterway.

Question 12

What is a Detachment?

Answer 12

A small unit of a military force.

Question 13

What is a Tejano?

Answer 13

A person of Mexican heritage who considers Texas home.

Question 14

What is a Mestizo?

Answer 14

A person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage.

Question 15

What does it mean to navigate?

Answer 15

To find a way to pass over or
along a body of water.

Question 16

What did Christopher Columbus think he discovered?

Answer 16

Asia

Question 17

What did Christopher Columbus actually discover?

Answer 17

The Americas

Question 18

What country did Christopher Columbus sail from?

Answer 18

Spain

Question 19

What native city did Hernan Cortes conquer?

Answer 19

The capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan.

Question 20

What city did Hernan Cortes build over the ruins of Tenochtitlan?

Answer 20

Mexico City

Question 21

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda was the first European to see what?

Answer 21

The Texas Coast

Question 22

Which explorer drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico that were used by other explorers?

Answer 22

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

Question 22

In what year did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda see and map the Texas coast?

Answer 22

1519

Question 23

What was Alonso Alvarez de Pineda originally looking for?

Answer 23

A sea route to Asia through the Gulf of Mexico also known as the “Northwest Passage”

Question 23

Why did Panfilo de Narvaez come to the Americas?

Answer 23

To search for gold in Apalache.

Question 24

What happened to Narvaez and his crew?

Answer 24

A hurricane hit them killing Narvaez, and only some crew members survived, including Cabeza de Vaca.

Question 25

Where were the survivors of Narvaez's expedition stranded?

Answer 25

The shore of Galveston, Texas.

Question 26

What was Cabeza de Vaca's original job?

Answer 26

Cabeza de Vaca was originally an accountant in Narvaez's expedition, however, he was forced to become the leader of the survivors after Narvaez and many crew members died in a hurricane.

Question 27

Which explorer was the first to explore Texas?

Answer 27

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 28

What did Cabeza de Vaca's journey begin?

Answer 28

The age of contact

Question 29

Which native tribe took Cabeza de Vaca in?

Answer 29

A group of Karankawa took the men in and shared supplies. Cabeza worked for them as a trader, servant, and doctor.

Question 30

Which African slave used his language skills to help him and Cabeza de Vaca survive?

Answer 30

Estevanico

Question 31

How long did it take for Cabeza de Vaca to find Spanish soldiers in Mexico?

Answer 31

8 years

Question 32

What rumors did Cabeza de Vaca spread to the viceroy?

Answer 32

Cabeza de Vaca spread rumors of mountains of gold to the north.

Question 33

What landform did Coronado discover?

Answer 33

Palo Duro Canyon

Question 34

What did Coronado search for?

Answer 34

The golden cities of Cibola and Quivira

Question 35

How did La Salle die?

Answer 35

He was murdered by his men in a mutiny.

Question 36

What settlement did La Salle establish?

Answer 36

Fort St. Louis

Question 37

What did La Salle claim for France?

Answer 37

The Mississippi River

Question 38

What did Father Francisco Hidalgo ask France?

Answer 38

He asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

Question 39

What was Damian Massanet's significance?

Answer 39

He wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas. So, he built San Francisco de los Tejas. It was the first settlement in East Texas.

Question 40

How many settlements did Jose de Escadon build?

Answer 40

20, with over 6000 people in all of them combined.

Question 41

Who was sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War?

Answer 41

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo