Explorers

Question 1

When did Cabeza De Vaca’s raft wash ashore?

Answer 1

1528

Question 2

How long was Cabeza de Vaca’s journey?

Answer 2

21 months

Question 3

Mission

Answer 3

A religious settlement

Question 4

Presidio

Answer 4

Built to protect settlers

Question 5

Friar

Answer 5

A priest at a mission used to convert natives to Roman Catholicism

Question 6

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Answer 6

A Spanish explorer sent out to find Quivira (a city of gold) but failed

Question 7

Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
la Salle

Answer 7

A French explorer who built the colony of St. Louis, and who was murdered by his own men.

Question 8

Panfilo de Narvaez

Answer 8

He went to explore the coast and find gold but got lost, he built boats to go back to Spain but was hit by a hurricane and killed

Question 9

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

Answer 9

He sailed to find the “Northwest Passage”, the supposed sea route to Asia

Question 10

conquistadors

Answer 10

people to help conquer and settle land for Spain

Question 11

1718

Answer 11

This is when France declared war on Spain

Question 12

1519

Answer 12

Cortes sailed from Cuba to the east coast of Mexico and Established the settlement of Veracruz

Question 13

The Chicken War

Answer 13

When the Spanish abandoned there missions because they to not want to fight the French