7th Grade: Early Explorers of Texas

Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias sailed along the west coast of Africa & past the southern tip of the continent, causing Europeans to see the possibility of Traveling to India & East Asia by sea.

• True

• False

The Spanish named the area in the Rio Grande Valley between two mountain ranges Sante Fe.

• True

• False

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado organized expeditions to search for gold and to find the places described by Cabeza de Vaca.

• True

• False

Spanish explorers in Texas spread diseases that killed many Native Americans.

• True

• False

Juan de Onate founded Fort St. Louis on Matagorda Bay.

• True

• False

He lead a Spanish expedition to settle the upper Rio Grande Valley.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Coronado

• Juan de Onate

Stories of his travels from Malhado to Culiacan inspired expeditions searching for gold.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Pineda

• Coronado

• La Salle

He founded Fort St. Louis on Matagorda Bay.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Pineda

• Onate

• La Salle

He reported to the Spanish king that the region of Texas contained good farming soil but no gold.

• Pineda

• Cabeza de Vaca

• La Salle

• Coronado

He mapped the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Mexico in 1519.

• Cabeza de vaca

• Pineda

• Coronado

• Onate