SS Explorers and Colonization UNit

Question 1

Which region separated Spanish land?

Answer 1

New France

Question 2

Who is the father of the Lower Rio Grande River?

Answer 2

Jose De Escandon

Question 3

What was the first mission?

Answer 3

San Francisco De Los Tejas

Question 4

What was the Alamo Called and who was its founder?

Answer 4

1. San Antonio De Valero
2. Its founder was Fray Antonio De San Buenaventura y Olivarez

Question 5

What was the purpose of a presidio?

Answer 5

To house soldiers who helped settlers

Question 6

What was the purpose of a mission?

Answer 6

To convert Native Americans to Christians and to the Spanish way of life

Question 7

What were the 2 main reasons why missions failed?

Answer 7

Native American Disinterest and Diseases.

Question 8

Survivors of who’s expedition were washed ashore and stranded in Texas?

Answer 8

Panfilo de Narvaez

Question 9

Who discovered new lands thought to be Asia?

Answer 9

Christopher Columbus

Question 10

Who mapped the Texas Coastline?

Answer 10

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

Question 11

Who conquered the Aztec Empire for New Spain?

Answer 11

Hernan Cortez

Question 12

Who discovered Palo Duro Canyon?

Answer 12

Francisco Vasquez De Coronado

Question 13

Who’s journey began the age of contact?

Answer 13

Cabeza De Vaca

Question 14

Who established Fort St. Louis?

Answer 14

La Salle

Question 15

Who claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France?

Answer 15

La Salle

Question 16

What is a mestizo?

Answer 16

A person of mixed European culture

Question 17

When was San Antonio founded?

Answer 17

1718

Question 18

What is a friar?

Answer 18

A catholic priest that belongs to a religious order

Question 19

What was the Grand Alliance?

Answer 19

The grand alliance was a group of European countries who wanted to stop France’s growing power.

Question 20

When did Pineda see and map the Texas Coastline?

Answer 20

1519

Question 21

What were the accomplishments of Francisco San Francisco De Los Tejas?

Answer 21

It strengthened Spain’s claim to Texas and it showed Spain that a colony needed families to settle the land.

Question 22

How did the war between Spain and France affect Spain’s North American colonies?

Answer 22

Spain’s colony was divided by the Mississippi River controlled by France. This made Spain feel worried as France showed their interest in Spanish Texas with the La Salle Expedition.

Question 23

Who is the priest who built the San Francisco de los Tejas mission?

Answer 23

Damian Massanet

Question 24

Who was sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War?

Answer 24

Aguayo

Question 25

Who reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War?

Answer 25

Aguayo

Question 26

Who established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas?

Answer 26

Aguayo

Question 27

More than 6,000 people lived in who’s settlements?

Answer 27

Jose De Escandon

Question 27

Who asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas?

Answer 27

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Question 28

Who wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas

Answer 28

Damian Massanet

Question 29

What is the French settlement near Matagorda Bay?

Answer 29

Fort St. Louis

Question 30

What was the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas?

Answer 30

Los Adaes

Question 31

Place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 31

Quivira

Question 32

What is the settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas and what is it called now?

Answer 32

1. San Antonio De Bexar
2. The city of San Antonio

Question 33

How did the Chicken War start?

Answer 33

Seven French soldiers from the Natchitoches attacked the San Miguel de Linares de Los mission and took a friar and a soldier. The sound of chicken caused the soldiers to get distracted, allowing the captives to escape and share what they had learned about the attack with others.