Unit 3: Age of Contact (Explorers)

This explorer was the first to map the Texas coastline in 1519.

• Pineda
• Coronado
• Cabeza de Vaca
• La Salle

This explorer traveled through Texas and wrote a journal called "La Relacion."

• Cabeza de Vaca
• Coronado
• Pineda
• La Salle

This explorer led an expedition through the Texas panhandle in search of gold.

• Coronado
• Pineda
• Cabeza de Vaca
• La Salle

This French explorer established a stockade in East Texas called Fort St. Louis.

• La Salle
• Coronado
• Cabeza de Vaca
• Pineda

This era describes European exploration in Texas.

• Age of Contact
• Native Texas and Its People
• Spanish Colonial
• Mexican National

Explorer

• a person who explores an unfamiliar area
• to find a way through a body of water
• an official who rules in the name of the king or queen
• a crude fort

Conquistador 

• a soldier who explored and conquered lands for Spain
• a person who explores an unfamiliar area
• to find a way through a body of water
• an official who rules in the name of the king or queen

Navigate

• to find a way through a body of water
• an official who rules in the name of the king or queen
• a crude fort
• an economic system requiring exclusive trade between a country and its colonies

Stockade 

• a crude fort
• an economic system requiring exclusive trade between a country and its colonies
• materials used to manufacture other products
• the exchange of goods, raw materials, and diseases between the Americas and Europe

This explorer lived with Karankawan Natives after shipwrecking off the coast of Texas.

• Cabeza de Vaca
• Coronado
• Pineda
• La Salle