Unit # Flash Cards

Question 1

Presido

Answer 1

fort; built to house soldiers who protected the settlers

Question 2

Privateer

Answer 2

A ship that is owned by a private person with arms. Usually governments higher them to help.

Question 3

Stockade

Answer 3

A very bad fort; usually mad out of wood

Question 4

Mission

Answer 4

A settlement made to convert Natives to Catholic and Spanish people.

Question 5

Viceroy

Answer 5

The highest ranking in New Spain in name of the King and Queen of Spain.

Question 6

Province

Answer 6

Like a state in New Spain

Question 7

Conquistadors

Answer 7

Conquered land for Spain in the America’s.

Question 8

Navigate

Answer 8

How to find where you are going.

Question 9

Christopher Columbus

Answer 9

1. From Spain
2. Landed in new lands thought to be Asia (America’s) in 1492
3. Inspired other to sail west

Question 10

Hernan CORTES

Answer 10

1. From Spain
   2.Conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519
   3.Built Mexico City

Question 11

Alonso Alvarez de PINEDA

Answer 11

1.From Spain
2. first European to see the coast of Texas
3. Mapped the coast of Texas in 1519
4. Drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico (used by other explorers)

Question 12

Panfilo de NARVAEZ

Answer 12

1. From Spain
2. Survivors of the expedition washed ashore in Texas
3. Survivors were stranded in Texas
4. His expedition started in 1527

Question 13

Alvar Nunez CABEZA DE VACA

Answer 13

1. Shipwrecked in Texas in 1528
2. From Spain
3. His journey began in the Age of Contact
4. First European to explore Texas
5. Wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers.

Question 14

Renee-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de
LA SALLE

Answer 14

1. From France
2. Started in 1684
3. Established Fort St. Louis
4. Murdered by his own men
5. Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France

Question 15

Father Francisco HIDALGO

Answer 15

1. Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

Question 16

Damian MASSANET

Answer 16

1. Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas
2. Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.

Question 17

Antonio Margil DE JESUS

Answer 17

1. Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.

Question 18

Jose de ESCANDON

Answer 18

1. Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas.
2. More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements.
3. Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Question 19

Marques de San Miguel de AGUAYO

Answer 19

1. Reopened missions that had been abandoned during the Chicken War.
2. Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War.
3. Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.

Question 20

Which European rival was the greatest threat to Spain’s North American lands? Why?

Answer 20

France was the greatest threat to Spain because they are on each others border.

Question 21

what is San Antonio de Bexar

Answer 21

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Question 22

Los Adaes

Answer 22

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Question 23

San Francisco de
los Tejas

Answer 23

First Mission in East Texas

Question 24

San Antonio de Valero

Answer 24

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Question 25

Quivira

Answer 25

place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Question 26

Fort St. Louis

Answer 26

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Question 27

Events in order

Answer 27

1. Europeans search for sea routes to Asia.
2. Columbus discovers the Americas
3. Conquistadores map the coastline while searching for the Northwest Passage.
4. Conquistadors explore the interior of Texas.
5. The French build a fort in Texas.

Question 28

What were the two main reasons missions failed

Answer 28

1.They thought losing their traditional lifestyle was bad.
2.Deaths due to diseases.

Question 29

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

Answer 29

For protection against Natives that attacked them.