TERMS
A person who wages an unofficial war on a country for their own personal gain.
What is filibuster
A type of graph that shows how the parts of something relate to each other and to the whole
What is circle graph
Where did Columbus actually land on his first voyage of discovery.
What is an island in the Caribbean Sea
A double agent for the U.S. army, and a very sneaky guy
What is James Wilkinson
The year Columbus left Spain for his first voyage of discovery
What is 1492
A rapid spread of a disease in a short time.
What is disease
One of the five themes of geography that focuses on transportation and communication.
What is movement
Why did the Spanish conquistadors start sailing to the Americas
What is to find gold
These peoples kept the settlements going by becoming the main source of labor, planting and harvesting the crops and caring for the animals
What is Indians
American Indians
Native Indians
The year that the viceroy of New Spain sent an expedition to look for the legendary golden cities
What is 1538
The rumored shortcut that the Mississippi River might flower to the Pacific and provide a shortcut for trading with Asia.
What is Northwest Passage
This region contains the highest elevations in Texas
What is Mountains and Basins
The Spanish built this on the ruins of Tenochtitlan
What is Mexico City
The key purpose of missions
What is to convert Natives to Christianity
Convert Natives/American Indians/Native Indians
Mission San Antonio de Valero was founded in this year
What is 1718
A building material, often shaped into bricks.
What is adobe
What is culture
Spaniards believed Cabeza de Vaca's writings hinted at this mythological place
What is Seven Cities of Cibola
What is peninsulares
Comanches were part of the group of American Indians that attacked the Santa Cruz de San Saba Mission in what year
What is 1758
An imaginary line that runs through Greenwich England. It divides the Earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is prime meridian
When geographers study railroad maps, they are investigating which of the Five Themes of Geography.
What is movement
Which river was La Salle looking for when he set sail from France in 1684
What is Mississippi
Forts that offered safety from unfriendly American Indians and helped control the American Indians in the missions.
What is presidio
The year the search for La Salles fort took place
What is 1689