TX25-26 - SC Missions Fail

Organize these options into the right ERA of Texas History. WHEN COMPLETE THERE SHOULD BE THREE [3] ITEMS IN EACH CATEGORY

Groups:

(a) NATURAL TEXAS AND ITS PEOPLE

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(b) AGE OF CONTACT

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(c) SPANISH COLONIAL ERA

• Spain built presidios to protect settlements

• Cortes conquered the Aztecs in 1519

• La Salle accidentally landed in Texas in 1685

• San Antonio was established

• early people learned to farm

• Comanches and Karankawas hunted for food

• Spain built missions to spread their culture

• Cabeza de Vaca survived a shipwreck

• "prehistoric" people migrated to Texas

Match the following descriptions with the correct CULTURE GROUPS of early Texans.

• SOUTHEASTERN

• built houses out of adobe [mixture of earth and straw] near the Rio Grande

• GULF

• nomadic tribe that lived in tepees and hunted the buffalo

• PLAINS

• used large dugout canoes for fishing and travel along the coast of Texas

• PUEBLO

• built permanent villages on the fertile farmlands of east Texas

Label this map with the following locations:

a

b

c

d

e

Red River

Houston

Rio Grande

Fort Worth

Austin

Which of these four regions of Texas is the most populated? [hint: it includes the cities of Houston and Galveston]

• Coastal Plains

• North Central Plains

• Mountains and Basins

• Great Plains

When traveling from Dallas to El Paso [from east to west] the _?_?_?_ increases, getting higher and higher the further west you travel.

Put these explorers from the Age of Contact in the correct CHRONOLOGICAL order [that is the order their actions happened following the flow of time]

• La Salle accidentally landed on the coast of Texas

• Cortes conquered the Aztecs and built Mexico City

• Columbus discovered North and South America

• Coronado searched for the Seven Cities of Gold known as Cibola

• Cabeza de Vaca survived a shipwreck

Drag each of these items to the correct location:

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1492 - Columbus discovers ​ (a)  

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1519 - Cortes conquers the Aztecs and builds

(b)  

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1540 - Coronado searches for ​ (c)  

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1685 - La Salle accidentally lands in Texas and builds ​ (d)  

• Cibola
• Fort St. Louis
• Mexico City
• North and South America

1 - What European country is represented by this flag?

and

2 - Give one example of something that this country introduced in Texas in the 1600s or 1700s.

ALL of these are names of Spanish missions built in Texas EXCEPT -

• Mission San Antonio de Valero

• Mission Santa Maria del Esparza

• Mission Corpus Christi de la Ysleta

• Mission San Francisco de los Tejas

Spain's goal was to build missions in Texas and spread their religion and culture to the local native tribes. Why did this plan ultimately fail?

• missions were constantly attacked by French raiders, and many of the friars were killed in battle

• long periods of rainy weather caused frequent flooding

• Native Americans rejected the religion and culture of Spain [sometimes violently]

• NONE of these answers are correct