Row 1
The Spaniards dubbed the Indians Tejas, which is derived from the Hasinai term for what?
Friend
La Salle called the region Louisiana after his king. What was his king's name?
King Louis XIV
Ysleta was founded as a home for which indigenous group?
Tigua Indians
A Pueblo spiritual leader ignited an uprising against the Spanish in 1680. The Spanish colonists were driven from northern New Mexico by the Pueblo Revolt. Who organized the uprising?
Popé
What is the name of the Franciscan priest who traveled alongside Alonso de León?
Damián Massanet
A Franciscan Father who served at San Francisco De los Tejas. He also helped found San Juan Bautista mission along the Rio Grande, but he was not content there. He wanted to return to East Texas and work with local American Indians.
Francisco Hidalgo
Where Captain Ramon built a presido
Neches River
This town was the first organized civil government in Texas.
San Fernando de Béxar
One of the presidos founded and it became a large mission in texas.
Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía del Espiritu Santo
One of the founded 24 settlements by José de Escandón and was settled in 1755.
Laredo
The Spanish established themselves in New Mexico along the upper Rio Grande in the 1600s. They constructed towns, ranches, and missions among the Pueblo Indians, including which present-day city?
Santa Fe
Back at Fort St. Louis, fewer than 30 individuals remained, the majority of them women and children. The Karankawa Indians assaulted and overran the fort, killing all of the adult settlers and destroying it. The Karankawas took five children captive. The Karankawas kept their children until they were rescued later. What years are predicted to when it occured?
1688 or 1689
The Spanish sent civilian settlers and soldiers to accompany the missionaries; the soldiers' job was to defend their fellow Spaniards. What was brought about by the first Spanish settlers in Texas?
Spanish Colonial Period
Life was difficult at Fort St. Louis because starvation and sickness killed many settlers; also, the colonists had to protect themselves against who?
Karankawa Indians
What year was Sante Fe founded?
1610
The explorer that was sent off in 1713 to find father Hidalgo.
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis
The 1718 governor of Texas who lead a group of colonists and built San Antonio de Valero and San Antonio De Bexar.
Martín de Alarcón
El Camino Real
It became one of the largest settlements in Texas and used to be known as La Bahia.
Goliad
A mission that was built by franciscans to teach American Indians about Spanish life.
San Sabá
Which U.S. state has Ysleta as its oldest Hispanic settlement?
Texas
The Spanish wanted the indigenous American Indians to reside inside the mission walls so that missionaries could educate them about agriculture and farming with the help of Spanish people. What other lessons did missionaries wish to share?
Catholicism
What is the name of the first Governor of Spanish Texas?
Domingo Terán de los Ríos
A Spanish Religious community is known as what?
Missions
What is the name of the individual who canoed down the Mississippi River to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico? There, he placed the French flag and claimed all of the Mississippi-drained territory for France. This territory stretched from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sieur de La Salle
A future town in the area of the Red River.
Natchitoches
It was a mission made of branches, mud and straw. Also near San Antonio River.
San Antonio de Valero
The governor of Coahuila and Texas. He was chosen by the Viceroy of Mexico to retake the abondondened lands of east Texas.
Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo
A Spanish military officer who moved the mission of La Bahia to the San Antonio River.
José de Escandón
The american Indians who wanted to know about Spanish life but later decided to attack a Spanish mission.
Apaches
By 1684, five settlements had been established along the Rio Grande's southern bank. One of these villages was founded on the Rio Grande's south bank, but floods in the 1800s shifted the river's channel, leaving it on the north bank. What is this settlement's name?
Ysleta
What was the name of the Spanish governor who led the expedition to find Fort Saint Louis in 1689?
Alonso de León
What are the titles of Spanish military installations?
Presidios
La Salle and his crew immediately discovered they couldn't live in the coast's muddy lowlands. They proceeded inland several miles and established a settlement at Garcitas Creek. What was the name of the settlement?
Fort St. Louis
What is the common title for Spanish ranches?
Ranchos
A Spanish Presido commander who treated St.Denis well.
Domingo Ramón
A presido built a mile away from San Antonio De Valero.
San Antonio de Béxar
A expedition led by Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo. Its purpose was to fortify and retake missions in the east Texas region. It set out in 1720
Aguayo expedition
A River where many missions were located close to it.
San Antonio River
About how many American Indians attacked the missions.
2,000
On their journeys, the Spanish saw the Hasinais and referred to the Indians as what?
Tejas
An expedition left France in the summer of 1684. It comprised four ships and approximately 300 soldiers and settlers. The expedition ran into problems when one of the ships was taken by Spanish pirates. Then several of the sailors deserted, later informing the Spanish of the expedition's plans. What was the name of the expedition?
La Salle Expedition
La Salle became lost, and the ships missed the Mississippi River's mouth. The crew eventually landed at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast. What month and year did this occur in?
February 1685
What is an alternate title for "Revolution"?
Revolt
In early 1690, De León and Massanet returned to Texas with several missionaries and perhaps 100 soldiers; the Spanish claimed the land for their king. They then chose a location west of the Neches River and began erecting a mission, which took only a few days. What is the name of the mission?
San Francisco de los Tejas
He established San José y San Miguel de Aguayo.
Antonio Margil de Jesús
Missions both established by Antonio Margil De Jesus in 1720.
San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
A presido in east Texas that later served as a capital of Texas.
Nuestra Señora del Pilar de los Adaes
An industry
Ranching
The enemy of the Spanish
French