Social Studies Unit 3 TEST

What is a Spanish military fort that often had a mission included in the walls?

• presidio

• mission

• Fort Saint Louis

• La Bahia

The Spanish would build a ________________ in the settlement to spread

Christianity to the people in the area.

• presidio

• mission

• fort

• colonization

Traveling to the new territories for the purpose of discovery

became known as The Age of____________.

• Colonization

• Missions

• Exploration

• Settlements

The primary motive for the exploration to the new land was:

1. 1. GOD 2. ? 3. GLORY

2. Pick the correct word below and type it on the line provided.

3. grain goat gold gravity

Why did the Spanish decide to establish missions, forts, and presidios in Texas?

• to encourage the settlement of Texas

• to show that they cared about the

  Native tribes

• to make money

• to start a war with the Native tribes

The state-sponsored settlement of people to the new territories became known as....

• missions

• exploration

• colonization

• discovery

TRUE or FALSE

The Spanish thought it was their duty to convert the Native tribes to Christianity.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Spanish needed places for their military soldiers to live with their supplies,

so they built _______________ across Texas.

• missions

• forts

• buildings

• pueblo houses

Because the colonization of people moving to the Americas became so popular and the demand for free labor increased so much, the practice of _______________ was brought to the New World.

• farming

• ranching

• slavery

• trading

When the French Explorer Robert Cavalier Sieur de "La Salle" landed in Texas by mistake,

he build a fort and named it______________ for the King of France.

• St. Denis

• La Bahia

• The Alamo

• Fort Saint Louis