Chapter 5 Test

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

6. Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias sailed along the west coast of Africa and past the southern tip of the continent, causing Europeans to see the possibility of traveling to India and East Asia by sea.

• True
• False

7. The Spanish named the area in the Rio Grande Valley between two mountain ranges Santa Fe.

• True
• False

8. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado organized expeditions to search for gold and to find the places described by Cabeza de Vaca.

• True
• False

9. Spanish explorers in Texas spread diseases that killed many Native Americans.

• True
• False