Texas Explorers and Missions retest

Military bases and Church settlements are called

• Presidios and missions
• Democracy and communism
• Indians and Explorers
• Friars and Indians

Spanish explorers and French explorers both claimed land in Texas after making CONTACT with that group of people?

• Friars
• Quakers
• Native Indians
• missionaries

What year did Pineda map the Texas coast?

• 1519
• 1607
• 1658
• 1718

What motivated the European Explorers to explore the Americas?

• Gold
• Land
• Natives
• Nothing, they never came back

Which European explorer built Ft. Louis in Matagorda Bay in the mouth of the Mississippi river?

• Cabeza de Vaca
• Coronado
• Cortes
• La Salle

A mission needs to have what type of rooms?

• Indian Quarters and a church
• Kitchen and a church
• Dungeon and a church
• Friars Quarters  and a church

Most cities in Texas reflect with what cultural heritage?

• France
• Spain
• England
• Portugal

Why was Texas a disappointment to the early Spanish explorers?

• Native Texans were unfriendly.
• Texas was too big to explore.
• Cibola was guarded by a fierce war-like tribe.
• Spain could not find the riches they thought they would.

This explorer conquered the mighty Aztec Empire by being sneaky and lucky (lucky to be filled with disease)!

• Cortez
• Coronado
• Cabeza De Vaca
• Pineda

One of the main reasons the Spanish King wanted to set up missions in Texas was try to block out the French from controlling the land in Texas.

• True
• False