Vocab Unit 3-4

Question 1

________ were built to house soldiers who protected settlers.

Answer 1

Presidio

Question 2

When the ships reached Haiti, a Spanish _________ captured one of the French vessels.

Answer 2

Privateer

Question 3

La Salle and his men built Fort St. Louis. It was not truly a settlement more of a _________

Answer 3

Stockade

Question 4

___________ were founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the native peoples Spanish culture and religion.

Answer 4

Missions

Question 5

Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain was _______ Antonio de Mendoza.

Answer 5

Viceroy

Question 6

Coronado was a young noble who had been named governor of one of the ____________ of New Spain.

Answer 6

Province

Question 7

Spanish _________________ helped to conquer and settled lands for Spain.

Answer 7

Conquistador

Question 8

La Salle led an expedition to ___________ the entire length of the Mississippi

Answer 8

Navigate

Question 9

The Spanish explorer that Discovered new lands thought to be Asia and inspired explorers to travel west.

Answer 9

Christopher Columbus

Question 10

The Spanish explorer (1519) that built Mexico City and conquered the Aztecs Empire for Spain.

Answer 10

Hernan Cortez

Question 11

The Spanish explorer who was the first to see Texas and map the coastline.

Answer 11

Pineda
1519

Question 12

The Spanish explorer who died in a hurricane and mission survivors landed in East Texas.

Answer 12

Narvaez
1519

Question 13

The Spanish explorer who was shipwrecked on the Texas coastline, the First European to see Texas, and wrote stories that inspired future explorers.

Answer 13

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 14

The Spanish explorer who was the first to see Palo Duro canyon and searched for Cibola and Quivira.

Answer 14

Coronado

Question 15

The French explorer who started Fort St. Louis and was murdered by his own men.

Answer 15

La Salle

Question 16

The Father who asked the French to reopen San Fransico de los Tejas.

Answer 16

Father Francisco Hidalgo

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Damian Massanet

Question 18

Opened the most successful mission in East Texas.

Answer 18

Antonio Margil de Jesus

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

Jose de Escandon

Question 20

Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War also established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.

Answer 20

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo

Question 21

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Answer 21

Fort St. Lous

Question 22

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 22

Los Adaes

Question 23

First Mission in East Texas

Answer 23

San Francisco de los Tejas

Question 24

Mission chapel is known today as the Alamo

Answer 24

San Antonio de Valero

Question 25

Place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 25

Quivira

Question 26

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Answer 26

San Antonio de Bexar

Question 27

What were the two main reasons the missions failed?

Answer 27

Native American disinterest and disease

Question 28

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

Answer 28

For protection from enemies

Question 29

The nickname for fleeing the Spanish from the French when they invaded.

Answer 29

Chicken war

Question 30

Which region separated New Spain?

Answer 30

New France

Question 31

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

Answer 31

France was the greatest rival because it was their territory that split New France.

Question 32

The year San Antonio was founded

Answer 32

1718

Question 33

The year Pineda sees and maps the Texas Coast

Answer 33

1519