Explorers Short Quiz

What Explorer is know for mapping the Texas coast

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

• Hernan Cortez

• Juan de Oñate

A Spanish soldier-explorer who sought personal riches and power, as well as wealth and glory for Spain, in the conquest for the Americas

• conquistador

• missionary

• representative

• privateer

Religious settlements

• province

• stockade

• mission

• conquest

privately owned ship outfitted with weapons

• presidio

• privateer

• plantation

• refuge

a district of a colony or country; similar to a state

• refugee

• privateer

• mission

• province

Which is NOT apart of the 3 G's

• God

• Guns

• Glory

• Gold

Which of the following explorers Never came to Texas:

• Pineada

• De Vaca

• La Salle

• Columbus

I'm considered the first explorer of Texas:

• Pineda

• Cabeza De Vaca

• Columbus

• Cortes

I established Fort St. Louis after not finding the Mississippi River:

• La Salle

• Cornado

• Onate

• Moscoso

I am known for crossing through the panhandle of Texas:

• Onate

• La Salle

• Cornado

• Moscoso