Spanish Colonial Era Test Review

What did Coronado hope to find in Cibola and Quivira? 

• Gold
• Silver
• Indians
• Amarillo

How did the city of El Paso get it's name? 

• The explorers named it after the Hot sauce
• The explorers named it because it was the pass between 2 mountains
• They spelled peso wrong and named it after money
• The mission was in the past and the natives couldn't speak spanish. 

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

• To establish a new settlement for King Louis
• To catch fish
• To go swimming
• To start a spanish mission

How did the French end up settling in Texas?

• La Salle got lost and ended up in Texas
• La Salle liked Texas better and left Louisiana to fight in the Alamo
• La Salle wanted to find a Longhorn
• La Salle and Cabeza de Vaca were buddies who had lunch and decided to stay in Texas

What role did Father Massanet play in the early Spanish settlement of Texas?

• He played monopoly
• He was the Friar who asked the head of the Catholic Church if he could build the first mission in Texas
• He played the governor
• He played cards with the other friars. 

Why was San Juan Bautista so successful when San Francisco de los Tejas was a huge failure? 

• The name was shorter so more Natives could read it
• Bautista was built near the Rio Grande and Tejas wasn't built near a river at all. 
• The natives liked the friars more at Bautista
• the presidio was prettier at Bautista

What did Friar Hidalgo do to increase the tension between the Spanish and the French in Texas?

• He taught the native children french
• He asked the French government to re-open the Tejas Mission in East Texas without telling the Spanish
• He taught the French children spanish
• He taught the spanish children english

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

• The mission San Antonio de Bexar was built. This later becomes the city we know today as San Antonio. 
• It was the year the Natives built the alamo.
• It was the year Cabeza de Vaca found Palo Duro Canyon
• It was the year Coronado found his Gold. 

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

• Teaching Catholicism to Natives and giving religions support to settlers and soldiers
• Cleaning out the Mission
• Singing in Spanish to the Natives. 
• arguing with the soldiers.

A Spanish soldier was a guard for the mission, a police officer for the settlement, helped to guard the supply trains, and ______________? 

• played music for the bands
• sang opera
• carried the mail to the settlements
• played golf on the weekends.