Spanish Colonial Era

True or False. Texas settlements included mestizos who are people of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.

True or False. Attracting Native Americans to the missions and converting them to the Catholic religion was a difficult task for the friars.

True or False. Native Americans lived in the missions primarily to receive protection.

True or False. Native Americans who lived in missions followed daily routines that they established based on their traditional way of life.

True or False. The Spanish established Los Adaes as the unofficial Spanish capital of Texas to provide closer supervision of its settlements.

True or False. The Mission San Antonio de Valero, ​now known as the Alamo, was one of six missions built in the growing San Antonio area.

True or False. The first Spanish settlement in an area of the Americas was usually a mission. ​

True or False. Soldier explorers, called conquistadores, helped to conquer and settle lands claimed by Spain in the Americas.

True or False. Spanish explorers of Texas spread diseases that killed many Native Americans​.

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

• Hernán Cortés

• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda

• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle