Chapter 5 Early Explorers of Texas 7th Grade Texas History

Portuguese explorer ____________ sailed along the west coast of Africa and past the southern tip of the continent, causing Europeans to see the possibility of traveling to India and East Asia by sea.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Antonio de Mendoza

• Rene-Robert Cavelier

• Sieur de la Salle

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

• Santa Fe

• El Paso

• Del Rio

• Eagle Pass

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

• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

• Rene-Robert Cavelier

• Antonio de Mendoza

• Bartolomeu Dias

Spanish explorers in Texas spread diseases that killed many ________________.

• African Americans

• Mexican Americans

• Spanish Americans

• Native Americans

______________ founded Fort St. Louis on Matagorda Bay.

• Antonio de Mendoza

• Juan de Oñate

• Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle

• Bartolomeu Dias

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

• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

• Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

• Juan de Oñate

• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle

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

• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

• Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

• Juan de Oñate

He founded Fort St. Louis on Matagorda Bay.

• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle

• Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

• Juan de Oñate

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

• Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

• Juan de Oñate

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

• Juan de Oñate

• Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle