Events (What is)
Era when missions and presidios were built in Texas.
What is Spanish Colonial?
This explorer established a fort at Matagorda Bay in 1685.
Hint: He established Fort St. Louis
Who is La Salle?
This empresario brought brought Anglo-American settlers to Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
Year Miguel Hidalgo de Costilla delivered a famous speech "Grito de Dolores."
When was 1810?
Era when Spanish explores encounter Native Americans for the first time searching for God, Gold and Glory.
What is Age of Contact?
This Spanish explorers landed in Mexico in 1519, defeated the Aztecs and built Mexico City.
Who is Cortes?
This empresario brought early settlers to Texas and settled his colony in Victoria.
Who is Martin de Leon?
Year father Antonio de Olivares founded the first mission and presidio at San Antonio
When was 1718?
The spread of diseases from Europe to the Americas.
What is Columbian Exchange?
Spanish explorer who explored and mapped the Gulf of Mexico including the Texas Coastline.
Who is Pineda?
This empresario brought early settlers to Texas and set up his colony in Gonzales.
Who is Green DeWitt?
Year the coast of Texas was first mapped by Spanish explorers.
When was 1519?
This is the result when the state of Coahuila y Texas was created.
What is Mexican Federal Constitution?
This explorer shipwrecked in Texas in 1528, first European to set foot in Texas, encountered with the Karankawas.
Hint: Wrote a book that had stories about the land that became Texas
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
This empresario obtained a contract to bring 300 families to Texas but died of pneumonia.
Who is Moses Austin?
Year that La Salle established a fort at Matagorda Bay.
When was 1685?
This is when American volunteer forces were defeated and killed while Mexico was fighting independence from Spain. Hint: it was a battle
What is Battle of Medina?
This explorer sent to search for Cibola but reported to Spain that the area of Texas had good land for farming but no gold.
Hint: explored along the Panhandle of Texas
Who is Coronado?
Tribe that destroyed Fort St. Louis, captured 5 of La Salle's french soldiers and killed the remaining explorers.
Who are the Karankawas?
Year that Mexico achieved its independence from Spain.
When was 1821?