Conquistadors
France
Spain
The Search for Gold
Colonies
100
This person was sent to map the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
Who is Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda?
100
This was the first French colony in Texas.
What is Fort St. Louis?
100
He seized the city of Tenochtitlan and renamed it the city of Mexico.
Who is Cortes?
100
He explored parts of the Southeast in his search for Cibola and reached the Mississippi River.
Who is DeSoto?
100
This is the site of the first Spanish colony in the Americas.
What is Hispanola?
200
He was granted the land of Florida by the king of Spain.
What is Narvaez?
200
La Salle was searching for this when he set sail for the Gulf of Mexico in 1684.
What is the mouth of the Mississippi River?
200
This is one who is sent to do religious or charitable work in a territory or foreign country.
What is a missionary?
200
He is one of four survivors of the Narvaez expedition and spoke about the seven cities of gold.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
200
This is a settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people of the area.
What is a mission?
300
This is a term for a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth and land in the Americas.
What is conquistador?
300
Fighting broke out between the French and these Native Texans when the colonists tried to retake supplies that had washed up on shore.
What is the Karankawas?
300
This is a person belonging to one of the religious brotherhoods of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is a friar?
300
He explored areas of present-day New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas in his search for Cibola.
Who is Coronado?
300
This is the governor of a colony who rules in the name of the king.
What is a viceroy?
400
This person preyed on ships in the 1600s.
What is a buccaneer?
400
La Salle claimed all of Louisiana for which country?
What is France?
400
From 1492 to 1519, Spain focused on establishing colonies here.
What is the Indies?
400
Estevanico sent a large cross showing that he had seen this.
What is the Seven Cities of Cibola?
400
The French established Fort St. Louis, forcing Spain to establish which colony?
What is Santa Fe?
500
This explorer write an account of his life with Native Americans.
What is Cabeza de Vaca?
500
By 1686 most of the original 300 colonists at this colony had been killed by disease or the Karankawas.
What is Fort St. Louis?
500
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand were the rulers of what country?
What is Spain?
500
Coronado traveled from Tiguex to this supposedly wealthy land.
What is Quivira?
500
Native Texans succumbed to this after European settlers arrived.
What is disease?
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