Unit 3 Flashcards
What happened in 1718?
San Antonio City was founded in 1718
Who made Fort. St. Louis?
La Salle
Where was La Salle from?
France
When did Pineda see Texas and Map it?
1519
What is a privateer?
A private ship armed for military use
What is a presidio?
A structure to house soldiers.
Who asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas?
Father Francisco Hidalgo
Who wanted to build settlements near the Caddo?
Damian Massanet
Who created the most successful mission in East Texas?
Jesus
What is Escandons’s nickname?
The Father of the Lower Rio Grande
Who Founded 20 settlements? How Many People lived in them?
Escandon, More than 6000 people
Who reopened missions abandoned during the chicken War?
Aguayo
What was the unofficial capital of texas? Who founded it?
Los Adeas, Aguayo
When did the Chicken War Happened (not a date)
When the French came and the Spanish Ran (like chickens)
French Settlement Near Matagorda Bay
Fort St. Louis
What was the first mission in East Texas
San Francisco de los Tejas
Mission Chapel known today as the Alamo.
San Antonio de Valero
place on the great plains said to be filled with gold
Quivira
Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas
Sain Antonio de Bexar
Which European rival was the greatest threat to Spain’s North American lands? Why?
New France was the greatest threat to Spain’s North American land because they bordered unoccupied Spanish Texas. It would have been fairly easy for the French to try to take that land.
What is a stockade
crude fort
What is a mission
Settlement with a purpose of converting the natives to a religion
Who Conquered the Aztec Empire for Spain?
Cortes
What happened with Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition?
His expedition got shipwrecked, and the survivors were stranded on Texas.
What did Christopher Columbus do?
Discovered the Americas, (thought to be Asia) inspired other explorers to sail west.
Who discovered Palo Duro Canyon
Coronado
Who searched for Cibola and Quivira
Coronado
Whose journey began the Age of Contact
Cabeza de Vaca
Who was murdered by his own men, established Fort St. Lois, and Claimed the Mississippi river for his country.
La Salle
Where is La Salle from?
France
Which region Separated New Spain
New France
What was the main reason Natives stayed in the mission
Protection From enemies
What was the main two reasons missions failed
native disinterest and disease.
