Spanish Colonial Texas History

A Catholic priest who belongs to a religious order is a 

• Friar
• Conquistador
• Monk
• Viceroy

A mission is a 

• task that may be impossible, as believed by Tom Cruise.
• a religious settlement built by Spain. 
• a military fort or outpost
• a district of a colony or country; similar to a state

Most settlements, like missions and presidios, were built around what geographic feature?

• Mountains
• Plateaus
• Rivers
• Plains

The missions were created to convert which group of people to the Catholic religion?

• French
• Spanish
• Native Americans
• The Yetis

San Antonio was founded in what year?

• 1718
• 1999
• 1721
• 1682

A fort or military outpost

• Mission
• Presidio
• Church
• Base

Tejas means _________________________ in Spanish

• enemy/rival
• friendship/ally
• loner/alone
• scared/timid

Spain was focuses to convert the Native Americans to what religion?

• Catholicism
• Mormons
• Protestantism
• Islam

The setbacks that the missions faced were

• crops failing and disease spreading
• Native American attacks and hurricanes
• crops failing and tornados
• poor leadership and ghosts

What was the purpose of the Spanish missions?

• It was the main tool Spain used for colonizing Texas
• It was the main tool France used for colonizing Texas
• It was used to protect French settlements in Texas
• It was used to protect Spanish settlements in Texas