A. Bring Wealth and Gold to the Spanish Empire

1st QUARTER REVIEW KEY

1.  Which of the following was not something Spain wanted to do when the explorers, like Cabeza de Vaca came to Texas.

A.  Bring wealth and gold to the Spanish Empire.

B.  Live with the Native Americans and forge alliances with them.

C.  Stop France from settling in the New World.

2.  True or False: The Spanish and the French found excessive amounts of gold and riches.

3.  Why did Fray Damian Massanet want to establish the first mission in East Texas? Convert the Caddo to Catholicism

4.  Which of the following was an unintended consequence of the Spanish missions in Texas?

A.  Many Catholic priests converted many of the Native Americans.

B.  Many conquistadors found gold in Texas.

C.  Many Native Americans died from diseases the Spanish brought with them.

5.  Which of the following people did not help in the mission system?

A.  Hernando Cortes

B.  Jose de Escandon

C.  Francisco Hidalgo

D.  Antonio Margil de Jesus

6.  True or False: All cities were built close to waterways and transportation routes.

7.  Know where the Colorado River is. It runs through the center of the capital Austin. Austin is symbolized by a star on the map.

8.  What big city is located in the Mountain and Basins region of Texas?

El Paso

9.  In which region of Texas would you find large scale fishing, oil and gas industries, and lumber related businesses?

Coastal Plain

10. Which is the best reason behind having a large percentage of Mexican Americans (Hispanics) living in the lower Rio Grande Valley?

a.  The high number of technologically advanced jobs

b.  Desire to immigrate to new Mexican American neighborhoods

c.  Relative location to the Mexican Republic (Mexico)

11. Which region of Texas has more precipitation: The Coastal region or the Mountains and Basins?

12. Which physical factor was a positive influence on where missions were built in Texas?

a.  Roads

b.  Waterways

c.  Heavy snowfall

d.  Mountains

13. Which of the following was the least destructive to the environment when Native Americans tried to meet their basic needs in order to survive?

a.  Using the logs from trees to build homes

b.  Living a nomadic style of life to keep from starving

c.  Putting barbed wire around their land to keep others out.

14. Which city did Coronado pass through as he reached for the seven cities of gold (Cibola)?

Amarillo

15. Which is not a word that reflects the Spanish influence on the Texas ranches?

a.  Vaquero

b.  Lariat

c.  Saddle

d.  Rodeo

16. In which era did La Salle built Fort Saint Louis?

Spanish Colonial Era

17. In what era did the Spanish come to Texas looking for God, glory, & gold?

Exploration Era or Age of Contact Era

18. What did the Spanish explorer Pineda, accomplish during the Age of Contact?

Mapped the Texas Coast

19. What city was built in 1718 to serve as a midpoint between East Texas and South Texas (Mexico)?

San Antonio

20. Put the following in chronological order:

Spanish Colonial III Mexican National IV

Age of Contact II Pre-historic Era I

21. What did the Coahuiltecan and the Karankawa have in common?

Nomadic & hunters and gatherers

22. The first mainland settlement for Spain was founded in 1519 by ______.

Pineda

23. What group of people settled in Texas first? Second? Third?

a.  European settlers 2nd

b.  Unites States settlers 3rd

c.  Native Americans 1st

24. Why did the Spanish build missions in Texas during the Spanish Colonial Era?

Convert Native Americans to Catholicism

25. True or False: The Apache and the Comanche were nomads who depended on the buffalo and lived on the plains.

26. Which explorer was looking for the mouth of the Mississippi and shipwrecked?

La Salle

27. Were most of the Native Americans hunters and gatherers?

Yes

28. When the explorers came, they brought their culture and mingled with the Native Americans’ culture. Texas and Mexico each celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Mexico was greatly influenced by the Spanish culture.

29. Know what a journal entry looks like. What kind of source is it? Primary or Secondary?

30. True or False: There were Native American quarters in a mission and not in a presidio (fort).

31. Know how to read a charts and graphs.

32. Read the following sentence: The Karankawas and the Couhuiltecans banded

together in family groups. Is the sentence correct, grammatically and historically?

Yes

33. Which region of Texas gets the least amount of rainfall and is the driest?

Mountains & Basins

34. In what areas of Texas do tornadoes occur the most?

Panhandle & North Central Plains

35. True or False: Spain built missions to secure their claim to the New World?

36. Well, acequias, and canals are:

a.  Ways to adapt to a drier climate

b.  Ways to irrigate so that farming can occur

c.  Ways to get water near settlements

d.  All of the above

37. Overall, were missions very successful in converting Native American in Texas?

No

38.

Since the Ogallala Aquifer is the largest underground water source in the state, the opinion expressed above declares we should do what with it?

A. We should provide more cities with the Aquifer’s water.

B. We should work to conserve the Aquifer’s water.

C. We should bring the Aquifer’s water to the surface as a lake.

D. We should find other aquifers to support the states’ water supply.

39. An example of the Spanish influence on place names can be evidenced by various cities throughout Texas. Which of the following is the panhandle city that Coronado passed through while searching for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold (Cibola)?

A. San Marcos

B. Goliad

C. Amarillo

D. Uvalde

40. Fill in the timeline

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