texas history Flashcards
___________were builts to house soldiers who protected settlers.
presidio
When the ships reached Haiti, a Spanish _______________ captured one of the French vessels.
privateer
La Salle and his men built Fort St. Louis. It was not truly a settlement but a ______________.
stockade
__________ were founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the Spanish culture and religion.
missions
Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain was _________________ Antonio de Mendoza.
viceroy
Coronado was a young noble who had been named governor of one of the _______ of New Spain.
provinces
Spanish _____________________ helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain.
conquistador
La Salle led an expedition to _________________ the entire length of the Mississippi River.
navigate
When was Christopher Columbus’s expedition?
1492
Christopher columbus took off from his expedition from?
Spain
What did Christopher Columbus inspire other explorers to do?
sail west
What did Christopher Columbus do on his journey?
Discovered new lands thought to be Asia
Where did the Hernan Cortes’s expedition take off?
Spain
When did the Hernan Cortes’s expedition take off?
1519
What did Hernan Cotes conquer?
Aztec Empire
What did Hernan Cortez build?
mexico city in new spain
Where did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda expedition take off?
Spain
When did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda expedition take off?
1519
What did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda map?
the texas coastline
What did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda see first?
the texas coast
What did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda draw?
maps of the gulf of mexico
Where did Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition take off?
Spain
When did Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition take off?
1527
Where did the survivors of Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition go?
survivors of his expedition washed ashore in TX
Where did the survivors of Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition get stranded?
Texas
When did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s expedition take off?
1528
Where did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s expedition take off?
Spain
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca wrote stories about what?
Texas
Where did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca get shipwrecked?
Texas Coast
What did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s expedition begin?
Age of Contact
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first to do what?
explore texas
When did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s expedition take place?
1540
Where did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s expedition take off from?
Spain
What did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado discover?
Palo Duro Canyon
What did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado search for?
Cibola and Quivira
When did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
la Salle expedition takes off?
1684
Where did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
la Salle’s expedition takes off?
France
Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
la Salle got murdered by who?
his own men
What did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
la Salle claim?
the Mississippi River Valley for France
What did Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
la Salle establish?
Fort St. Louis
What did Damian Massanet
want to build and he also opened this mission.
a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas
What did Father Francisco Hidalgo
ask the French?
to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.
Damian Massanet was a priest that build what?
San Francisco de los Tejas
What did Antonio Margil de Jesus
open?
the most successful mission in East Texas.
Jose de Escandon
was the father of what?
Lower Rio Grande Valley
How many people lived in Jose de Escandon
settlements?
more than 6,000
What did Jose de Escandon
found?
20 settlements in the southern Texas
Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo
was sent to do what?
drive the French from east Texas after the chicken war
What did Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo
establish?
Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.
Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo reopened what?
missions that had been abandoned during 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
Quivira
place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold
San Antonio de Bexar
Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas
