Age of Contact & Spanish Colonization Review

Which of the following would make it difficult for Spain to build settlements in Texas? (check all that apply)

• the Native Americans

• Distance from Spain

• the Geography of Texas

• Lack of supplies

Spain established missions in East Texas to keep an eye on which European competition?

• Britain

• France

• Mexico

• Russia

At this time in our studies, which European country owned what is now Mexico and Texas?

• France

• Spain

• England

• Russia

At a mission, Indians did which of the following?

• Learned to speak Spanish

• Farmed

• Ranched

• Became Catholic

These were originally built to protect Missions and roads but eventually grew to protect the settlements that grew around the Missions

• Nunnery

• Friary

• Vaqueros

• Presidios

Who convinced the viceroy to colonize the Caddos in East Texas and founded the first Spanish mission in East Texas (San Francisco de los Tejas)?

• La Salle

• Damian Massanet

• Antonio Margil de Jesus

• Coronado

San Jose y San Miguel de Auayo was the greatest Mission in Texas. Who founded it?

• Antonio Margil de Jesus

• Fray Damian

  Massanet

• Francisco Hidalgo

• Father Antonio de San

  Buenaventura y

  Olivares

Most of the missions were located along which geographic feature?

• plateaus

• rivers

• mountains

• escarpments

What year was mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) and the settlement of San Antonio founded?

• 1492

• 1519

• 1620

• 1718

San Antonio, La Bahia, and Nacogdoches were began as...

• Started up as trading centers around missions

• Built to provide food and supplies to presidios

• Developed as governmental centers for territory

• Maintained as gathering points for ranchers to bring their herds