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WorksheetsTexas History BUILD UP!
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 7hrs 59mins
This tribe is known for hunting buffalo and mastery of horsemanship skills
Comanche
Jumano
Karankawa
Caddo
Nomads, bison hunters, and teepees relate MOST to which tribe?
Comanche
Karankawa
Caddo
Jumano
Identify the YELLOW area
Identify the YELLOW area
Identify the YELLOW area
Identify the YELLOW area
Identify the explorer who discovered the New World in 1492, and started Spanish Exploration into Texas.
Columbus
Pineda
Cabeza De Vaca
La Salle
Which explorer was trying to take control of the Mississippi river?
Pineda
Coronado
La Salle
Cabeza De Vaca
Which Explorer went looking for the "cities of gold" but found only simple adobe brick houses?
His mission to find gold in Texas failed
Cortes
Pineda
Cabeza de Vaca
Coronado
Which of the following explorers NEVER came to Texas:
Pineada
De Vaca
La Salle
Columbus
I established the FRENCH Fort St. Louis after not finding the Mississippi River:
La Salle
Cornado
Onate
Moscoso
Which Explorer was considered "part of the tribe" after establishing himself as a medicine man?
Cabeza de Vaca
Coronado
La Salle
Whose remaining colonists were killed by the Karankawa Indians while he was away on an expedition?
Cabeza de Vaca
Coronado
La Salle
What is a filibuster?
a person that moves from one place to another consuming resources
a free state
a person who is fighting another country without government permission.
a person that stays forever in one place and consumes all resources.
What is a MISSION?
military fort or outpost
district or colony
religious settlement
official that rules in the name of the king or queen
This EXPLORER convinced the Aztecs to rebel against their leader, before enslaving them and then destroying their entire civilization.
Cortes
Pineda
De Vaca
Coronado
What was the MAIN reason that the SPANISH built the MISSIONS?
To keep the French out of their land (AKA TEXAS)!
To convert the Natives.
To acquire more land from Americans.
To kill of more natives in their territory with disease and starvation.
Missions were used by WHO to convert the Native Americans?
Which economic activity would the Spanish have engaged in while in the SOUTHERN Central Texas PLAINS? (REMEMBER THE REGIONS OF TEXAS)
Missions do all of the following:
Establish Claim over Texas
Provide Protection for Citizens
Convert Natives to Christianity
Colonize Texas
Provide clothing for Colonists
How did geography influence early settlements in Texas?
South Texas provided the best location for settlements.
Settlements in West Texas were isolated.
Settlements were often started near sources of water.
There were more Missions in Texas than there were Presidios.
A MOVEMENT to bring about CHANGE.
Filibuster
Revolution
Nationalism
An EXTREME love or patriotism for your homeland/country A MOVEMENT to become an independent nation
Filibuster
Revolution
Nationalism
Check 3 out of 4 of the main causes of the MEXICAN REVOLUTION.
New Spain was too far from Spain to protect the BORDERLAND
New Spain wanted to govern themselves.
Spain could not protect its citizens from the Galveston Pirates.
Spain was not treating New Spain/Mexico fairly.
Who was the leader who sparked the Mexican Revolution with the GRITO DE DELORES?
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Philip Nolan
Jean Lafitte and Aury
James Long
Gutierrez and Magee
Read or examine the map. (Click the + sign to magnify the image).
What area or region was claimed by Spain?
the central part of present-day United States
the eastern part of present-day United States
the southern part & western part of present-day United States as well as present-day Florida (the state), Mexico and Central America
the Caribbean Islands
Read or examine the map. (Click the + sign to magnify the image).
What area or region was claimed by France?
the central part of present-day United States
the eastern part of present-day United States
the southern part & western part of present-day United States as well as present-day Mexico and Central America
the Caribbean Islands
Read or examine the map. (Click the + sign to magnify the image).
What area or region was claimed by Britain or England?
the central part of present-day United States
the eastern part of present-day United States
the southern part & western part of present-day United States as well as present-day Mexico and Central America
the Caribbean Islands
What effect did the Age of Exploration have on the Native Americans?
Majority of them died from European diseases such as small pox, were enslaved by the Spaniards, and/or were displaced by the English when westward expansion started.
They flourished in their land and were allowed to keep living as they were before.
They became the laborers for the 13 colonies.
They traded with the French and Spanish.
Which word best suits this situation: a country decides to sail to a new land and claim it as their own.
pull factor
colony
colonization
push factor
A is a part of land area with similar characteristics.
region
colony
country
continent
means the way people spend and make money.
democracy
monarchies
fluency
economy
What country had already claimed the land that Fort St. Louis was built upon?
Spain
France
Great Brittan
Canada
Why did Spain leave Texas alone for 150 years?
There was no food
There was no gold
There was too many mountains
Not enough rivers
Why did Spain set up missions?
To find gold
To control and colonize Texas.
To find glory
To ranch
2. Mexico gained Independence from Spain
3. Mexican Constitution of 1824
4. ?
A white (Caucasian) European living in the United States and who is not Hispanic.
Anglo American
Empresario
Tejano
Pioneer
The Spanish word for a land agent whose job it was to bring new settlers into an area.
Empresario
Tejano
Anglo American
Pioneer
A person of Mexican heritage who considers Texas home.
Tejano
Anglo American
Empresario
Pioneer
