HUMANS AND PLACES OF UNIT @ Flashcards
viceroy
Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain
conquistador
helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain
province
Chunk of a colony like New Spain
navigate
Successfully cross or Successfully explore
privateer
A privately owned naval vessel
stockade
A supply fort
mission
Made to convert natives to christanity
presidio
A fort of soldiers made to defend missions and other settlements.
Christopher Columbus
Guy who discovered the Americas in 1492
Hernan Cortes
Guy who conquered the Aztecs for Spain and built Mexico City on the ruins of their capital.
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Saw and mapped the Texas coast.
1519
Important
Panfilo de Narvaez
Expedition failed
Died
Survivors stranded on Galveston Island
One was Cabeza de Vaca
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Spent 8 years stranded in Texas
We know most about the tribes because of him.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Searched for Cibola and Quivira
Father Francisco Hidalgo
Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.
Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle
Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France
Established Fort St. Louis
Murdered by his own men
Damian Massanet
Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas
Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.
Antonio Margil de Jesus
Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.
Jose de Escandon
Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas with more than 6000 people
Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo
Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War.
Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas and reopened many missions closed because of the chicken war.
Fort St. Louis
French settlement near Matagorda Bay
Los Adaes
Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas
San Francisco de
los Tejas
First Mission in East Texas
San Antonio de Valero
Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo
