Exploration
The Spanish explorers were coming to the New World for these reasons.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
Purpose of Missions
What was to claim land and spread their Catholic religion?
River that borders Texas and Oklahoma.
What is the Red River?
Definition of an empresario.
What is a land agent?
First families Stephen Austin brought to Texas.
Who were the Old 300?
He conquered the city of Tenochtitlan renaming it Mexico City.
Who was Hernan Cortez?
Missions failed because of these reasons.
What is Native American disinterest and disease?
As you move from east to west you are moving from a _________ elevation to a _________ elevation.
What is lower to a higher?
Definition of a Centralist.
What is they believe in a stronger central government?
French explorer who established Ft. St. Louis.
Who was La Salle?
Cabeza de Vaca made contact with this group of Native Americans as he traveled through Texas.
Who were the Karankawa?
This road connected the Rio Grande settlements to the settlements in East Texas.
What is El Camino Real?
Largest region in Texas.
What is the Coastal Region?
Priest who issued a grito- a call for Independence- "Cry of Dolores".
Who was Father Miguel Hidalgo?
A person who travels to land that has not yet been settled.
Who is a pioneer?
Texas got it's name Tejas from this group of Native Americans.
Who were the Hasinai(Caddo) Indians?
First East Texas mission.
What is San Francisco de los Tejas?
The Adams Onis Treaty made this river the border between Spanish Texas and the United States.
What is the Sabine River?
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It was formed to oppose the growing power of France in the late 1600's.
What was the Grand Alliance?
He mapped/charted the coastline of Texas in 1519.
Who was Alvarez de Pineda?
Official name of the Alamo.
What is San Antonio de Valero?
4 states that border Texas.
What is New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
The first organized military force to fight for Mexico's independence.
Who was The Republican Army of the North?
Why Stephen Austin advertised in Southern Newspapers.
What was similar farming and climate conditions?