Texas History Review Missions

Missions are

• Religious settlements designed to convert Native Americans
•  military forts designed to protect the missions
• Someone who is part spanish part Native American
• Land agents who sell land to new settlers

presidios are

• Religious settlements designed to convert Native Americans
•  military forts designed to protect the missions
• Someone who is part spanish part Native American
• Land agents who sell land to new settlers

What is a Tejano?

• Someone of Spanish heritage who lives in Texas
• Someone who is mixed Spanish and Native American
• Native American from Texas
• White American

The San Antonio de Valero mission became known as the _______________. 

• Chicken 
• Alamo
• San Antonio
• El Camino Real

A Spanish military settlement is known as a...

• mission

• town

• presidio

• colony

How did the Spanish respond to the French threat?

• By creating missions along the coast

• By creating missions in East Texas

• By building missions in Louisiana

• By starting missions in West Texas

Many names of cities in TX, such as El Paso, reflect the language and culture of---

• England

• Portugal

• France

• Spain

The development of Missions and conversion to Catholicism are examples of what Texas Era?

• Natural Texas and its People

• Spanish Colonial

• Mexican Colonial

• Age of Contact

Corpus Christi de la Isleta was the first mission built in Texas.  Which present day city is it located near?

• Houston
• Austin
• Dallas
• El Paso

The San Antonio de Valero mission became known as the _______________. 

• Chicken 
• Alamo
• San Antonio
• El Camino Real