Explorers
Missions & Presidios
Important Dates & Eras
Spanish Influence
Thinking Like a Historian
100

Mapped the Texas coast in 1519

Who is Álvarez de Pineda?

100

The main goal of Spanish missions in Texas

What was converting Native Americans to Christianity? 

100

1718

What was the year San Antonio was founded?

100

Texas city name that shows Spanish influence

What is San Antonio/Corpus Christi/El Paso/etc?

100

Primary or Secondary: A diary written by Cabeza de Vaca is what type of source

What is a primary source?

200

Explorer shipwrecked near Galveston. First came in contact with Karankawa in 1528.

Who is Cabeza de Vaca?

200

A fort built to protect missions and settlers

What is a presidio?

200

1519

What was the year the Texas coast was mapped?

200

Spanish ranching traditions influenced this Texas tradition

What is Cattle Ranching/Cowboy Culture?

200

Skills used to compare a Spanish mission record with a modern textbook

What is comparing primary and secondary sources?

300

French explorer established Fort St. Louis in 1685.

Who is La Salle?

300

San Antonio mission was called the “Queen of the Missions”

What is Mission San José?

300

Which came first: Cabeza de Vaca’s shipwreck or the founding of San Antonio?

What was Cabeza de Vaca’s shipwreck – 1528?

300

Type of Texas building shows Spanish architecture the most

What are missions?

300

A word meaning it favors one side or point of view

What is bias?
400

Searched for the Seven Cities of Gold but failed to find them.

Who is Coronado?

400

Missions were usually built near this natural feature

What are rivers?

400

The period when Europeans first explored and met Native Texans

What was the “Age of Contact”?

400

Spanish word is still used today for “cowboy”

Vaquero

400

The following events in the order they happened: La Salle’s colony, Pineda maps Texas, San Antonio founded, Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecks

What is Pineda maps Texas, Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecks, La Salle’s colony, or San Antonio founded?

500

The cause of Spain strengthening its claim and building missions.

How did the failure of La Salle’s colony affect Spain’s interest in Texas?  

500

One of the three missionaries who played an important role in colonizing Texas.

Who is Massanet, Hidalgo, or Margil de Jesús?

500

To make history easier to study and understand

What is an era?

500

Two ways Spanish culture influenced Texas.

Answers Vary

500

A graphic representation of events. 

What is a timeline?

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