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Explorers and Colonization Flashcards

Learn about explorers and colonization

1
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A privately owned ship outfitted with weapons

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A privateer

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A poorly built fort

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A stockade

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3
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Highest ranking official behind the king

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Viceroy

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4
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What was building that housed soldiers called

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A presidio

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5
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What is a building used to convert Native Americans to Spanish people called

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A mission

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What was built to house settlers

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a town

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7
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Discovered new lands thought to be Asia

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Christopher Columbus

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8
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Conquered the Aztec Empire for Spain

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Hernan Cortes

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9
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Who was the first European to SEE Texas

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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

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10
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Who was the first European to explore Texas

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Cabeza de Vaca

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Sent to find to find gold in Quivira and Cibola, tricked by El Turko

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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Sent by the French to establish a settlement at the Mississippi River, Murdered by his own men

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Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle

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Died in a hurricane

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Panfilo de Narvaez

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Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas, wanted to build a mission for the Caddo People of East Texas

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Damien Massanet

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Opened the most successful mission in East Texas

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Antonio Margil de Jesus

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Father of the lower Rio Grande valley, founded 20 settlements in south Texas and 6,000 settlers lived thier

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Jose de Escandon

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

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Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo

18
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Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas

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Father Francisco Hidalgo

19
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Settlement created by La Salle

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Fort St. Louis

20
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First Spanish settlement in East Texas

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San Francisco de los Tejas

21
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Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

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Los Adaes

22
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Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

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San Antonio de Bexar

23
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The period of tension in East Texas between Spain and France

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The Chicken War

24
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The three countries that owned part of the Americas

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France, Spain, and Great Britain

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