Conquistadors/Explorers
This Spaniard mapped the Gulf coast for the first time in 1519.
Who is Pineda?
Spanish missions were trying to spread this to the Native Americans.
What is Christianity?
This is a settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people in the area.
What is a mission?
This is the year Columbus landed in North America for the first time.
When is 1492?
In the 1500's this expedition set out to find Florida but would lose almost all the men. Some would crash into Galveston island and become slaves to the Karankawa.
What is the Narvaez expedition? (De Vaca will also be counted as a correct answer.)
This Spaniard was shipwrecked in Galveston during the Narvaez expedition and became a slave and then medicine man to the Karankawa Natives.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
The first Spanish missions were built along this river near what is now El Paso.
What is the Rio Grande?
This is a military post of guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control.
What is a presidio?
This is the year the Pineda mapped the Gulf coast.
When is 1519?
Pineda did this in 1519.
What is map the Gulf coast?
This Spaniard kept looking for Gold but would never find any during his 1540 expedition through Mexico and North Texas.
Who is Coronado?
After La Salle started Fort. Saint Louis near present day Beaumont, the Spanish set up missions in this part of Texas.
What is East Texas?
This is State-sponsored settlement of people to new territories.
What is colonization?
This is the year that de Vaca shipwrecked on Galveston island as part of the Narvaez expedition.
When is 1528?
Coronado was looking for this in North America in the 1540s.
What is look for gold?
This Conquistador from Spain conquered what is now Mexico city from the Aztecs.
Who was Cortez?
San Antonio de Valero mission would later be called this.
What is the Alamo?
This is a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas.
What is a Conquistador?
This is the year that La Salle established Fort Saint Louis in South East Texas for the nation of France.
When is 1685?
Who is France?
This man was not a conquistador, he was from France and started Fort Saint Louis near present day Beaumont.
Who was La Salle?
Missions were usually built near these.
What are rivers?
This is a Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the New World.
What is a Viceroy?
This is the year that Mexico was recognized by Spain as an independent nation and ends Unit 3.
When is 1821?
This conquistador defeated the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico city and killed an estimated 240,000 Native Americans.
Who was Hernan Cortes?