Unit 3 Review

Question 1

Presidios

Answer 1

Built to house soldiers who protected settlements

Question 2

Privateer

Answer 2

Private ship stocked with weapons

Question 3

What was Fort St Louis?

Answer 3

A stockade

Question 4

Mission

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Who was Spain’s highest ranking viceroy?

Answer 5

Antonio de Mendoza

Question 6

Conquistador

Answer 6

helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain

Question 7

Christopher Columbus

Answer 7

Inspired explorers to sail west and discovered new lands thought to be Asia

Question 8

Herman Cortes

Answer 8

Conquered Aztec Empire and built Mexico City for New Spain

Question 9

Pineda

Answer 9

Mapped the Texas coastline that was used by other explorers and was the first European to see Texas

Question 10

What year did Pineda see Texas?

Answer 10

1519

Question 11

Narvaez

Answer 11

Survivors of his expedition washed ashore and were stranded in Texas

Question 12

Cabeza de Vaca

Answer 12

His expedition began the Age of Contact, was the first European to explore Texas, and wrote stories that inspired future explorers.

Question 13

Coronado

Answer 13

Searched for Cibola and Quivira and discovered Palo Duro Canyon

Question 14

la Salle

Answer 14

established Fort St Louis, claimed the Mississippi River for France, and was murdered by his own men

Question 15

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Answer 15

Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo of East Texas and asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

Question 16

Damian Massanet

Answer 16

Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas

Question 17

Antonio Margil de Jesus

Answer 17

Opened the most successful mission in East Texas, had over 6,000 people

Question 18

Jose de Escandon

Answer 18

Father of the lower Rio Grande Valley, founded 20 settlements in southern Texas

Question 19

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo

Answer 19

Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas and reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War because he was sent to drive the French from East Texas

Question 20

Which region separated Spanish land?

Answer 20

France

Question 21

Quivira

Answer 21

place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Question 22

San Antonio de Bexar

Answer 22

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Question 23

San Antonio de Valero

Answer 23

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Question 24

San Francisco de
los Tejas

Answer 24

First Mission in East Texas

Question 25

Los Adaes

Answer 25

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Question 26

Fort St. Louis

Answer 26

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Question 27

What were the two main reasons missions failed?

Answer 27

Disease and disinterest

Question 28

What is the main reason Native Americans chose to live the in the missions?

Answer 28

Protection from enemies

Question 29

1519

Answer 29

Year Pineda spotted Texas

Question 30

1718

Answer 30

Year San Antonio was founded