Unit 2 Quick Check

Why was Spain angry that La Salle built Fort St. Louis on the Texas Coast?

• Because they were planning to build a fort in the same spot but France got there first

• Because Spain was angry that France claimed land that was actually in New Spain

• Because the Spanish were going to have to search Matagorda Bay for his lost ships

• Because he asked to borrow supplies from the Spanish

Match these explorers to their accomplishments:

• Hernan Cortes

• Defeated the Aztecs in 1521 with Native allies, Spanish

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Mapped the Texas Coast and Gulf of Mexico in 1519, Spanish

• La Salle

• Wrote La Relacion after his time being a Karankawa slave, Spanish

• De Pineda

• "Discovered" the New World in 1492 and sailed for Spain even though he was Italian

• Christopher Columbus

• French explorer who built Fort St Louis and was killed by his own men

Put the following events in Chronological Order:

• Columbus "discovers" the New World

• Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked in Galveston

• La Salle builds Fort St. Louis near Matagorda Bay

• De Pineda maps the Gulf Coast

• Cortes defeats the Aztecs

The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean was called...

• The Columbian Exchange

• The Silk Road

• The Fall of the Aztec Empire

• Advantages of the Spanish over the Natives

Identify each explorer:

a

b

c

d

La Salle

Cabeza de Vaca

de Pineda

Hernan Cortes

When Columbus set sail in 1492, he was searching for...

• The 7 Cities of Gold

• The Fountain of Youth

• A faster water route to Asia for trade with Europe

• The cure for smallpox

Who created this map of the Gulf of Mexico in 1519?

• de Pineda

• Cortes

• Cabeza de Vaca

• La Salle

Match how Spain achieved the 3 G's in the Age of Exploration and Colonization Era:

• Claimed the land of Mexico and Texas

• Gold (Economic)

• Seized Aztec treasures

• Glory (Political)

• Built missions to spread Christianity

• God (Social)

Put the fall of the Aztec Empire timeline in order:

• New Spain takes control of Mexico and Texas building missions and colonies over the next 200 years

• Cortes allies with Native tribes against the Aztecs

• The Battle of Tenochtitlan where the Aztecs are defeated

• Cortes renames Tenochtitlan to Mexico City

​ (a)   lands in​ Galveston in 1528.

He is kidnapped by the​ (b)   and forced to be a slave.

He saves a native and they let him go. He then walks to​ (c)   .

He sails back to​ (d)   and writes​ (e)   .

• Cabeza de Vaca
• Karankawas
• Mexico City
• Spain
• La Relacion
• Hernan Cortes
• Apaches
• Louisiana
• France
• a map