Chapter 5 - Early Explorers of Texas

The Age of Contact began with the journey through Texas by Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

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Cabeza de Vaca's report of riches in the lands north of Mexico was proven false by Luis de Moscoso's journey.

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• False

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado claimed the Rio Grande Valley for Spain.

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• False

Juan de Oñate moved up the Rio Grande Valley to where the city of San Angelo was founded in 1609.

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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, claimed the entire Mississippi River Valley for France.

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Match each item with its description.

• Tenochtitlán

• Aztec city conquered by Hernán Cortés; Mexico City was built on its ruins

• Fort St. Louis

• city described to Francisco Vasquez de Coronado as filled with treasure; instead, a Native American settlement near present-day Wichita, Kansas

• Quivira

• island where Panfilo de Narvaez's expedition was shipwrecked

• Malhado

• Rio Grande Valley settlement founded after Onate's expedition

• Santa Fe

• French settlement founded by Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle

Near which present-day Texas city did Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition end?

• El Paso

• San Angelo

• Corpus Christi

• Galveston

What Native American group did Francisco Vásquez de Coronado encounter when "the Turk" brought him to what Coronado hoped was Quivira?

• Zuni

• Karankawa

• Pawnee

• Wichita

Who helped the survivors of Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition after they were stranded on an island?

• Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

• the Karankawa

• the Zuni

• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

What twin cities were settled at the pass where the Rio Grande flows through two mountain ranges?

• Nacogdoches and San Antonio

• El Paso and Ciudad Juárez

• Santa Fe and San Angelo

• Galveston and Corpus Christi