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TEST SS/9/25/23/U2/@4th > HUMANS AND PLACES OF UNIT @ > Flashcards

HUMANS AND PLACES OF UNIT @ Flashcards

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viceroy

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Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain

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conquistador

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helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain

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province

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Chunk of a colony like New Spain

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navigate

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Successfully cross or Successfully explore

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privateer

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A privately owned naval vessel

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stockade

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A supply fort

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mission

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Made to convert natives to christanity

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presidio

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A fort of soldiers made to defend missions and other settlements.

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Christopher Columbus

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Guy who discovered the Americas in 1492

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Hernan Cortes

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Guy who conquered the Aztecs for Spain and built Mexico City on the ruins of their capital.

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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

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Saw and mapped the Texas coast.
1519
Important

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Panfilo de Narvaez

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Expedition failed
Died
Survivors stranded on Galveston Island
One was Cabeza de Vaca

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

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Spent 8 years stranded in Texas
We know most about the tribes because of him.

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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Searched for Cibola and Quivira

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Father Francisco Hidalgo

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Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

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Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle

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Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France
Established Fort St. Louis
Murdered by his own men

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Damian Massanet

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Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas
Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.

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Antonio Margil de Jesus

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Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.

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Jose de Escandon

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Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas with more than 6000 people

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Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo

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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.

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Fort St. Louis

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French settlement near Matagorda Bay

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Los Adaes

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Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

23
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San Francisco de
los Tejas

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First Mission in East Texas

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San Antonio de Valero

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Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

25
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Quivira

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place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

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San Antonio de Bexar

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Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

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1519

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Pineda sees and maps the Texan coast

28
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1718

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The Spanish establish a mission and presidio that eventually becomes San Antonio.

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