Holy Heroes
"Defender of the Indians."
Who was Fray Bartoleme de Las Casas
The natives in New Mexico lived in these types of villages made of clay?
What are pueblos?
City in California named after St. Francis.
What is San Francisco?
Today's most famous Texas missions are located in this city.
What is San Antonio?
From Genoa in Italy, he was the first explorer sent by England to find a passage to India.
Who was John Cabot?
This Aztec saw Our Lady in the hills outside of Mexico City.
Who was Juan Diego?
The Spanish name for a fortress.
What is a "presidio"?
City in New Mexico named after the Holy Faith.
What is Santa Fe?
This is one of the best-preserved presidios in the US.
What is Presidio La Bahia in Goliad?
The first permanent English colony.
What is Jamestown?
Accompanied Coronado on his expedition to find the Seven Cities of gold, stayed to evangelize the native tribes and was the first martyr in the lands that would become the United States.
Who was Fray Juan de Padilla?
This Spanish explorer was the first to explore what is now Texas.
Who was Coronado?
A flat-topped mountain it means "table" in Spanish.
What is a mesa.
This west Texas city saw many new missions when Spanish and Tigua Indians fled here during a revolt by the Pueblan Indians.
What is El Paso?
The colony founded by Sir George Calvert, a Catholic.
What is Maryland?
This Spanish Franciscan joined the Spanish expedition to what is now the state of California.
Who was Fray Junipero Serra?
The three men sent to govern New Spain when Cortes was sent back to Spain.
What was the "Royal Audience?"
The name of the hill on which Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to the Aztec peasant.
What is Tepeyac?
The Spanish were worried about this rival country encroaching on the lands claimed by Spain. They established missions in east Texas in response.
What is France?
He was the leader of the Parliamentary army and became the Lord Protector (dictator) of England after the execution of Charles I.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
She appeared to the natives in Texas, taught them prayers, and commanded them to seek baptism.
Who was the "Lady in Blue" or Sister Maria de Jesus?
This shaman from the Taos Pueblo led a rebellion against the Spanish settlers.
Who was Pope?
The former name of lands in present-day state of Kansas.
What was the Gran Quivira.
Spanish for the "King's Highway", it was a trail that connected the territories of New Mexico with the Gulf of Mexico.
What is El Camino Real?
The name Sir Francis Drake gave to the lands he discovered in what is now California.
What is "New Albion?"