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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| _____ would later be named the Alamo and become one of the Texas' most famous landmarks. | Mission San Antonio de Valero |
| _____ established the first European settlement in the New World. | Christopher Columbus |
| The governor of Coahuila y Tejas, _____ marched to East Texas with more than 500 soldiers and retook the mission captured by French. He also established new missions and presidios in East Texas and at Goliad. | Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo |
| Luis de Moscososo Alvarado completed the _____ mission; traveled into Texas as far as Austin. | De Soto |
| _____, a French explorer, helped establish missions and a presidio in East Texas. | Louis de St. Denis |
| _____ led an expedition through Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. | Hernando de Soto |
| The first East Texas mission was Mission San _____ de Los Tejas, which was later moved to San Antonio. | Francisco |
| A French explorer named _____ established a settlement named Fort St. Louis on the banks of the Gracitas River in present day Victoria County. | Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle |
| The pueblo of _____ was established as a way station on the road to New Mexico. It became the first European settlement in Texas and later became part of El Paso. | Ysleta |
| A town council is a(n) ____. | ayuntamiento |
| The pueblo of _____ was founded by Antonio Gil Ybarbo in East Texas near a Native American village of the same name. | Nacogdoches |
| The villa of _____ constructed on the crossroads of the Atascosito Road and the road from Copano Bay. Its name later changed to Goliad. | La Bahia |
| Shipwrecked in Texas; walked home to Mexico | Cabeza de vaca |
| Conquered the Aztecs | Hernando Cortez |
| Spanish explorer who chartered the Gulf coast and may have been the first European to land in Texas | Alsono de Pineda |
| Explored coast of South and Central America; America is named for him | Amerigo Vespucci |
| ______________ was a Conquistador who searched for Cibola and Quivira and crossed the Texas Panhandle. | Franscisco de Coronado |
| A(n) ____ is the mayor of a villa or ciudad. | alcalde |
| A new settlement or a town, smaller than a city is called a(n) ____. | villa |
| A house and trading post built by Ybarbo in the center of Nacogdoches was called the ____. | Old Stone Fort |
| The oldest settlement in Texas was ____. | Ysleta |
| A Spanish word for city is ____. | ciudad |
| In 1731 the Spanish government moved 16 families, from ____ to become the nucleus of Villa San Fernando de Bexar (San Antonio). | Canary Islands |
| A(n) ____ is a smaller settlement with fewer people than a villa, especially one without an established government. | pueblo |
| King Carlos III of Spain sent ____ on a 23 month inspection tour of New Spain, including Texas. | Marquéz de Rubí |
| ____ means to occupy with troops. | Garrison |
| By the year 1800, there were only about ____ residents living within the borders of what we now call Texas. | 5,000 |
| The governor of Coahuila y Tejas, _____ marched to East Texas with more than 500 soldiers and retook the mission captured by the French. He also established new missions and presidios in East Texas and at Goliad. | Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo |
| _____ are silver coins minted in New Spain; also called pieces of eight. | Reales |
| The first permanent settlement of Europeans in what is now Texas was Mission _____, which was located near present-day El Paso. | Corpus Christi de la Ysleta |
| _____ was built to protect Mission San Antonio de Valero and El Camino Real. | Presidio San Antonio de Béxar |
| Fray Francisco Hildalgo of Mission San Juan Bautista appealed to the viceroy to reopen the mission in East Texas. When the viceroy refused, he appealed to ____. | governor of Louisiana |
| The short name for Nuestra Señora de Loreto was _____, which was originally built near the site of Fort St. Louis but later moved to the San Antonio River near the present-day town of Goliad. | Presidio La Bahia |
| Mission ____ was located where El Camino Real de los Tejas crossed the Rio Grande and was called "Mother of Texas Missions" because it was the way station for many expeditions to establish other missions in Texas. | San Juan Bautista |
| La Salle established a settlement named _____ on the banks of the Garcitas River in present-day Victoria County. | Fort St Louis |
| Mission _____ was the first Southern Plains mission. | San Francisco Xavier de Horcasitas |
| _____ was sent to check out the rumors of the French settlement and to establish a Spanish mission in East Texas among the Caddo. | Alonso de León |
| A French explorer named _____ helped establish missions and a presidio in East Texas. | Louis de St. Denis |
| Alonso de León blazed a trail that would become the famous _____ de los Tejas, or King's Road of the Tejas, that would eventually stretch 700 miles from Monterrey Mexico, to near Robeline, Louisiana. | El Camino Real |
| A _________ is a place where travelers can stop, rest, and get additional supplies before continuing on their long journey. | Way Station |
| _____ is the Spanish word for plantation. | Hacienda |
| What was a reason why the first Spanish mission in East Texas failed? | A drought ruined their crops, Disease swept through the region, The Caddo were not interested in converting to Catholicism and changing their lifestyle. |
| The first East Texas mission was Mission _____, which was later moved to San Antonio. | San Fransisco de Los Tejas |
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