Unit 3 Review Flashcards
Presidios
Built to house soldiers who protected settlements
Privateer
Private ship stocked with weapons
What was Fort St Louis?
A stockade
Mission
Founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the Spanish culture and religion.
Who was Spain’s highest ranking viceroy?
Antonio de Mendoza
Conquistador
helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain
Christopher Columbus
Inspired explorers to sail west and discovered new lands thought to be Asia
Herman Cortes
Conquered Aztec Empire and built Mexico City for New Spain
Pineda
Mapped the Texas coastline that was used by other explorers and was the first European to see Texas
What year did Pineda see Texas?
1519
Narvaez
Survivors of his expedition washed ashore and were stranded in Texas
Cabeza de Vaca
His expedition began the Age of Contact, was the first European to explore Texas, and wrote stories that inspired future explorers.
Coronado
Searched for Cibola and Quivira and discovered Palo Duro Canyon
la Salle
established Fort St Louis, claimed the Mississippi River for France, and was murdered by his own men
Father Francisco Hidalgo
Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo of East Texas and asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.
Damian Massanet
Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas
Antonio Margil de Jesus
Opened the most successful mission in East Texas, had over 6,000 people
Jose de Escandon
Father of the lower Rio Grande Valley, founded 20 settlements in southern Texas
Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo
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
Which region separated Spanish land?
France
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
San Antonio de Valero
Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo
San Francisco de
los Tejas
First Mission in East Texas
