Texas History unit 3

Question 1

Christopher Columbus

Answer 1

He discovered new lands thought to be Asia

Question 2

Hernan Cortes

Answer 2

He conquered Aztec Empire for Spain and built Mexico City in New Spain

Question 3

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

Answer 3

He was the first to see and map the Texas coast.

Question 4

Panfilo de Narvaez

Answer 4

Survivors of his expedition were stranded in Texas

Question 5

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Answer 5

He was the first European to explore Texas

Question 6

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Answer 6

He discovered Palo Duro Canyon

Question 7

Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
la Salle

Answer 7

Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France, Established Fort St. Louis

Question 8

Chicken War

Answer 8

War breaks out in Europe between France and Spain. This situation first becomes known to the Spanish in east Texas later that year when seven French soldiers from the Natchitoches post “attack” the Spanish mission in an amusing incident that has come to be known as the Chicken War.

Question 9

Spain vs. France

Question 10

San Francisco de
los Tejas

Answer 10

First Mission in East Texas

Question 11

Fort St. Louis

Answer 11

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Question 12

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 12

Los Adaes

Question 13

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Answer 13

San Antonio de Valero

Question 14

Presido

Answer 14

were builts to house soldiers who protected settlers.

Question 15

privateer

Answer 15

A privateer is a private vessel that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

Question 16

stockade

Answer 16

a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defense against attack

Question 17

Mission

Answer 17

were founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the Spanish culture and religion.

Question 18

Viceroy

Answer 18

highest ranking official

Question 19

province

Answer 19

the whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture.

Question 20

conquistador

Answer 20

conquer and settle lands

Question 21

navigate

Answer 21

direct where something will go.

Question 22

what happened in 1519?

Answer 22

Spanish explorer and map-maker Alonso Álvarez de Pineda led an Spanish expedition that, for the first time, mapped the coast of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico

Question 23

what happened in 1528?

Answer 23

Cabeza de Vaca started his expedition.

Question 24

what happened in 1718?

Answer 24

San Antonio was founded