important people Flashcards
1
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Columbus
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- 1492
- Spanish explorer
- discovered new lands thought to be Asia
- inspired explorers to sail West
2
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Cortez
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-1519
- Spanish explorer
- conquered Aztec Empire for Spain
- built Mexico City in New Spain
3
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Pineda
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- 1519
- Spanish explorer
- drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico that were used by other explorers
- mapped the Texas coastline
- first European to see the TX coast
4
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Narvaez
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- 1527
- Spanish explorer
- survivors of his expedition were stranded in Texas
- survivors of his expedition washed ashore in TX
5
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Cabeza de Vaca
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- 1528
- Spanish explorer
- first European to explore Texas
- his jounrey began the Age of Contact
- shipwrecled on the Texas Coast
- wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers
6
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Coronado
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- 1540
- Spanish explorer
- searched for Cibola and Quivira
- discovered Palo Duro Canyon
7
Q
la Salle
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- 1684
- French explorer
- murdered by his own men
- claimed the Mississipii River Valley for France
- established Fort St. Louis
8
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Father Francisco Hidalgo
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- Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.
9
Q
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.
10
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Antonio Margil de Jesus
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- Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.
11
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Jose de Escandon
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- Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
- More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements.
- Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas.
12
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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.
- Reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War.
- Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.
