Age of Exploration Flashcards
What happened in 1519?
Pineda sees and maps Texas coast
What happened in 1718?
1.Spanish built the presidio San Antonio de Bexar
2. France declared war on Spain
What was the 1st mission?
San Francisco De Los Tejas
What were two accomplishments of San Francisco De Los Tejas?
- Strengthened Spain’s claim on Texas
- Showed Spain that a colony needed families to settle the land
What purpose did San Antonio De Bexar?
It served as a midway settlement in between Rio Grande and East Texas
What is San Antonio De Valero’s mission chapel known as?
The Alamo
What is the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas?
Los Adaes
What is Hidalgo known for?
Asked the French to reopen missions.
What is Massenet know for?
- Wanted to build a mission for the Caddo people
- Made the 1st mission, San Fransisco De Los Tejas
What is De Jesus know for?
He opened the most successful mission .
What is Escandon know for?
- “Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley”
- Made 20 settlements in Texas
- More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements
What is Aguayo know for?
- Sent to drive France out after the Chicken War
- Reopened many abandoned mission from the war
- Established capital of Spanish Texas
What was the Chicken War?
When France fought to take control of East Texas from Spain
Why did Natives join missions?
For protection
Why did the missions fail?
- Natives showed little interest and did not want to be converted
- Disease killed many natives in missions
What was Cabeza De Vaca known for?
- Crashed onto Galveston
- journey initiated the Age of Contact
- 1st European to explore Texas
- Wrote stories of Texas that aided other explorers
- From Spain
- Took place around 1528
What was Coronado known for?
- Found Palo Duro Canyon
- Took place around 1540
- From Spain
- Searched for gold based off of tales such as Quivira and Cibola
What was La Salle known for?
- From France
- Took place around 1684
- founded fort St. Louis
- killed by his own men once they became unhappy
- On his 1st voyage he claimed the Mississippi river for France, and on the 2nd trip he build the fort St. Louis along it.
What was Narvaez known for?
- Remnants of his crew were washed ashore and stranded in Texas
- Took place around 1527
- From Spain
What was Pineda known for?
- 1st European to see Texas coast
- From Spain
- mapped Texas coastline
- Drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico
- Took place around 1519
What was Cortes known for?
- From Spain
- Took place around 1519
- Built Mexico City
- Conquered Aztecs
What was Columbus known for?
- From Spain
- Took place around 1492
- Inspired other explorers to go to the “New World”
- “Discovered” America
What was San Juan Bautista known for?
- 2nd mission
- Close to Rio Grande
- Provided supplies
- Listening post
When was San Francisco De Los Tejas built?
June 1st, 1690
