Wednesday 1/14 Bellringers

​Bellringers for Week 4.1

By Nykea Salinas

Match

Move the correct answer to each box.

• European explorers discovered the New World

• Increase wealth, spread religion, expand empires, claim territory, find new trade routes to Asia through the Northwest Passage

• 1803; doubled size of the United States; gained fertile farmland and access to Mississippi River

• Mexico won its independence from Spain

Age of Contact

Reasons for Exploration

Louisiana Purchase

Mexican National Era

• Age of Contact

• Reasons for Exploration

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican National Era

Multiple Choice

Why did immigrants from the United States settle in Texas?

• To buy cheap, fertile farmland

• To convert Native Texans to Catholicism

• To abolish slavery in Texas and Mexico

• To spread American culture to Natives

Hotspot

Which location correctly identifies Austin

Hotspot

Which location correctly identifies El Paso?