Week 4 quiz

_________ was the first French explorer to enter the area that is now part of Texas

• La Salle

• La Belle

• La Trill

• La La La

La Salle planned to start a settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but he was not a great navigator. He missed his target by 400 miles and went ashore at ____________.

• Houston Bay

• Matagorda Bay

• Corpus Christi

• South Padre

La Salle and the colonists built a settlement along Garcitas Creek called

• Fort San Andreas

• Fort St. Massingall

• Fort St. Louis

• Fort Collins

La Salle was left with only one ship, La Belle, which was destroyed in a storm in _____.

• 1686

• 1600

• 1860

• 1626

Many people at Fort St. Louis died from hunger and _________, and many were killed by the Karankawa.

• disease

• dehydration

• falls

• lack of water

La Salle led a group on a journey to a French outpost near the Great Lakes. Some of the men rebelled and killed La Salle in Texas in __________.

• April 1680

• March 1690

• March 1687.

• April 1687

Fort St. Louis was attacked by the _________ at the end of 1688, and most of the colonists were killed.

• Apaches

• Karankawa

• Kobras

• Avengers

In the 1500s and 1600s, European countries fought each other to gain land, wealth, power, and influence.

• True

• False

• #IDK

• #whoknows

Spain joined with other countries to fight _______ during the War of the Grand Alliance.

• France

• Germany

• US

• Native Americans

To protect their claims in Texas from the French, the Spanish started to build presidios, or ________ outposts.

• chicken

• church

• mission

• military