People
Topic 3 (Lessons 1-3)
Topic 3 (Lessons 4-6)
100
A Italian (lived in Portugal) sailor who wanted to sail to Asia and India, but ended up on a island in the Caribbean. This landing was the first encounter that Europeans had with the Americas.
What/Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
a person who wages an unofficial war on a country
What is a filibuster?
100
a division of land; in Mexican Texas, one of three political divisions: Béxar, Brazos, or Nacogdoches
What is a department?
200
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490– c. 1559) was the first European to document Texas’s American Indians after shipwrecking along the coast. He traveled and mapped parts of Texas, and later lived freely among coastal tribes before traveling to Mexico.
What/who is Alvar Nunez de Cabeza de Vaca?
200
On August 24, 1821, the nation of Mexico was born, this made it official
What is the Treaty of Cordoba?
200
a legal document giving ownership to a piece of property
What is a title?
300
Was a man of great vision. He believed a wealthy empire could grow along the Mississippi river. He also believed that building a fort would expand his empire. He sailed from France to do that. La Salle actually passed the Mississippi River by more than 100 miles. Many setbacks plagued his expedition. He ended up building Fort St. Louis.
What/who is La Salle?
300
a settlement in Indian territory designed to convert American Indians to Roman Catholicism
What is a mission?
300
an official count of population
What is a census?
400
One of the early explorers following Columbus. He was a conquistador. In 1519, he landed on the coast of present-day Mexico. He had heard reports of a wealthy empire in the region--the Aztec civilization. Cortez was brutal and ruthless. He sought out this empire. He fought the Aztecs to gain wealth and to spread the Roman Catholic belief/religion.
What/who is Hernan Cortez?
400
the rapid spread of a disease in a short time
What is a epidemic?
400
government in which the people take an active role in making laws and decisions
What is self-government?
500
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (died 1520) was the first European explorer to map the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico. He was killed while exploring the mainland with some of his crew.
What/who is Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?
500
in New Spain, Spaniards from Europe
What is/are peninsulares?
500
the most prominent empresario of Mexican Texas. He brought more than 1,000 families to Texas in the 1820s.
What/who is Stephen F. Austin?
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