Age of Contact
This is a characteristic of the Spanish Colonial Era in Texas
What are American Tribes were discouraged from settling in Texas?
This Explorer accidentally landed at Mata Gorda Bay while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Who is Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur LaSalle?
The cities of El Paso and San Antonio reflect the cultural Legacy of this European nation.
What is Spain?
Coronado explored this are of the panhandle in search of the seven cities of gold.
What is the Palo Duro Canyon?
This legend motivated many Spanish Explorers to Texas.
What is Cibola, the seven cities of Gold?
This word is spanish for cowboy.
What is vaquero?
The Era of Exploration would land here on a time line.
What is the 1500s?
This Explorer wrote a book call La Relacion about his exploration.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
The Spanish decided to move Mission La Bahia from the coast to along the Guadalupe River because
What is there were conflicts with American Indian Tribes in the Region?
This place is a legend the encourage the Spanish to explore.
What is the legend of Cibola?
This modification was brought to missions that killed many native Americans.
What is disease?
What is the NEGATIVE effect of the Spanish missions in Texas.
What is diseases brought by many Spanish missionaries killed many American Indians?
This best describes the defining characteristic of the Age of Contact Era in Texas History.
What is Spanish and French explorers both claimed land in Texas?
This explorer was shipwrecked near Galveston while searching for the legendary city of El Dorado.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
This Explorer led the conquering of the Aztecs.
Who is Cortes?
Many missions and pueblos were established near these.
What are rivers?
A likely reason that many Missions failed among the Native population of Texas.
What is the Natives had their own religions, beliefs and ways of doing things?
This group is most likely to be blamed for bringing disease to Texas.
What are missionaries?
This is the year that Europeans first landed in the Americas.
What is 1492?
Fray Damian Massanet and Alonso De Leon led a successful expedition in for Spain to East Texas in 1690. This expedition came about because the Spanish were concerned about-
What is French forces establishing settlements in the region?
This explorer created the first map of the coast of Texas.
Who is Pineda?
This motivated Europeans to explore the Americas.
What is the desire to find gold?
The building of missions introduced what changes to the culture region in Texas.
What is religion?
These 3 Gs were the main motivating factors for exploration in the Americas and Texas.
What is God, Gold and Glory?
This is the year that the first map of the coast of Texas was drawn?
What is 1519?
The first African slave to land in the new world.
Who is Estevanico?
The significance of the first Texas coast map.
What is it is the first document in Texas History?
Hernando de Soto's expedition travelled across Texas and other parts of America to.
What is find Gold?
This group likely viewed the construction of missions with suspicion.
Who are the American Indian Tribes?
This city was the capital of the Aztecs and its modern day name is-
What is Tenochtitlan and Mexico City?