Week 12 Missions Vocabulary

A __________ is a religious settlement built by the Spanish to spread Catholicism to the Native Americans.

• minion

• mission

• villa

• presidio

The first Spanish mission built in Texas in 1682 in modern-day El Paso was __________.

• Mission Impossible

• Mission San Juan

• Mission Ysleta

• Mission El Paso

What were the towns that grew up between missions and presidios?

• villas

• via

• presidios

• missions

_________ were Spanish military forts built near missions.

• Presidents

• villas

• missions

• presidios

_________ was a Spanish fort that was built on top of Fort St. Louis, then moved to Goliad in 1749.

• La Bamba

• La Bahia

• Mission Ysleta

• Hasinai

The ________ were that bands of Caddo Indians that joined together.

• Hasinai

• Measles

• Villas

• Comanche

Name the highly contagious diseases that the Spanish spread to the Native Americans.

• measles and chicken pox

• smallpox and rubella

• tetanus and small pox

• measles and smallpox

Who was the Spanish priest that built Missions San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) to convert the Coahuiltecan Indians to Christianity? He is known as the Father of San Antonio.

• Fray Escandon

• Jose Olivarez

• Fray Olivarez

• La Bahia

Who is the Spanish army officer chosen to colonize the Rio Grande Valley? He is known as the Father of the Rio Grande Valley.

• Jose Escandon

• Fray Olivarez

• Fray Grande

• Jose Olivarez

What is the Spanish name for what we now call the Alamo?

• San Francisco de los Tejas

• San Antonio de Alamo

• La Alamo de Valero

• San Antonio de Valero