Spanish Colonial Era Test Review

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What did Coronado hope to find in the New World?

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Gold

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Why did La Salle want to find the Mississippi River on his second journey to the New World?

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To establish a new settlement for France

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How did the French end up settling in Texas?

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La Salle got lost and ended up in Texas.

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What is the SIGNIFICANCE of the year 1718 in the history of Texas settlement?

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The mission San Antonio de Bexar was built. This later becomes the city we know today as San Antonio.

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Missionaries had 2 main jobs in the Missions. One was to teach Spanish culture to the Native Texans. The other was ___________________________?

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Teaching Catholicism to the Natives

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Pineda mapped the Texas coastline in the year

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1519

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Spanish priests were converting Native Americans to

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Catholics

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Cortes defeated this Native American tribe: Karankawas, Pueblos, Apaches, Aztecs

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Aztecs

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What European country were the Spanish fighting with over land in Texas?

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France

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Which explorer shipwrecked off the coast of Texas and wrote a journal about his journey?

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Cabeza de Vaca