Vocab Unit 3-4 Flashcards
________ were built to house soldiers who protected settlers.
Presidio
When the ships reached Haiti, a Spanish _________ captured one of the French vessels.
Privateer
La Salle and his men built Fort St. Louis. It was not truly a settlement more of a _________
Stockade
___________ were founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the native peoples Spanish culture and religion.
Missions
Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain was _______ Antonio de Mendoza.
Viceroy
Coronado was a young noble who had been named governor of one of the ____________ of New Spain.
Province
Spanish _________________ helped to conquer and settled lands for Spain.
Conquistador
La Salle led an expedition to ___________ the entire length of the Mississippi
Navigate
The Spanish explorer that Discovered new lands thought to be Asia and inspired explorers to travel west.
Christopher Columbus
The Spanish explorer (1519) that built Mexico City and conquered the Aztecs Empire for Spain.
Hernan Cortez
The Spanish explorer who was the first to see Texas and map the coastline.
Pineda
1519
The Spanish explorer who died in a hurricane and mission survivors landed in East Texas.
Narvaez
1519
The Spanish explorer who was shipwrecked on the Texas coastline, the First European to see Texas, and wrote stories that inspired future explorers.
Cabeza de Vaca
The Spanish explorer who was the first to see Palo Duro canyon and searched for Cibola and Quivira.
Coronado
The French explorer who started Fort St. Louis and was murdered by his own men.
La Salle
The Father who asked the French to reopen San Fransico de los Tejas.
Father Francisco Hidalgo
The Priest that bult San Francisco de los Tejas. Wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.
Damian Massanet
Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.
Antonio Margil de Jesus
He was known as the Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, more than 6,000 people lived in his settlements, and he founded 20 settlements.
Jose de Escandon
Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War also established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.
Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo
French settlement near Matagorda Bay
Fort St. Lous
Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas
Los Adaes
First Mission in East Texas
San Francisco de los Tejas
Mission chapel is 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
San Antonio de Bexar
What were the two main reasons the missions failed?
Native American disinterest and disease
What was the main reason Native Americans chose to live in the missions?
For protection from enemies
The nickname for fleeing the Spanish from the French when they invaded.
Chicken war
Which region separated New Spain?
New France
Which European rival was the greatest threat to Spain’s North American lands?
France was the greatest rival because it was their territory that split New France.
The year San Antonio was founded
1718
The year Pineda sees and maps the Texas Coast
1519
