Explorers of Texas and Missions

What was an effect of the Columbian Exchange?

• The exchange of foods and animals had a dramatic impact on later societies.

• Triangular trade became less profitable.

• Native American diseases destroyed European populations.

• The Native American population increased dramatically with European contact.

What Spanish explorer was sent to capture the Seven Cities of Gold?

• Hernan Cortez

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

Jose de Escandon was an important figure during the European colonization of Texas because he founded -

• twenty settlements, including Laredo, and became known as "the father of the lower Rio Grande Valley."

• the first Spanish mission in East Texas called San Francisco de los Tejas.

• the mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aquayo, the most successful of the Spanish missions in Texas

• Los Adaes, a presidio that eventually became the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

To protect their claims to land in Texas against French settlement, the Spanish -

• Built missions, presidios, and towns

• Asked the United States to join forces with them against the French

• Negotiated a series of peace treaties and alliances with Native Americans

• Encouraged immigration by asking empresarios to recruit settlers

Which of the following best describes the motivation that caused European explorers to find a way to sail to Asia, otherwise known as the "three G's"

• Gold, God, and Gluten

• Gifts, Gold, and Glory

• God, Gold, and Glory

• God, Gold, and Silver

What is the significance of the year 1718 in Texas history?

• Moses Austin acquired the right to settle 300 Catholic families in Texas

• Christopher Columbus landed in the West Indies

• Martin de Alarcon established the mission San Antonio de Valero

• Stephen F. Austin brought the Old Three Hundred to his colony

In what year did Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explore and map the Texas coastline?

• 1519

• 1497

• 1540

• 1535

Hernan Cortez sailed from Spain to the New World in search of gold and riches. He is credited with building present day Mexico City. On what location was the city built?

• On the coastal shore at the location where his ship landed

• On the Rio Grande River

• At the site of the gold he discovered

• On the site of the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs

During the 1600s, which country challenged Spain's territorial claims by exploring the region that includes present-day Texas?

• England

• France

• Portugal

• The Netherlands

Which of the following was not a goal of the Spanish missions?

• to search for gold

• to colonize Texas

• to convert Native Americans to Christianity

• to convert Native Americans to be Spanish citizens