Unit 3 Exploration and Colonization of Texas Assessment

In what year did Alvarez de Pineda explore the  Texas coastline?

• 1519
• 1528
• 1541
• 1542

What contribution did Alvarez de Pineda make for Spanish exploration?

• mapped the Texas coast
• defeated the Aztec
• settled Mexico City
• explored New Mexico

The main goal of French settlers in Texas was to

• impose French culture on the Native Texans
• establish trade networks with the Native Texans
• convert the Native Texans to Catholicism
• eradicate all traces of the Native Texan customs

What area of the new world was Cabeza de Vaca originally set to explore before his shipwreck?

• Between Florida and Mexico
• Texas
• Mexico's coastline
• Caribbean islands

Which of the following best describes the defining characteristics of the Age of Contact era in Texas history?

• Anglo and Spanish settlers established colonies in Texas.
• American Indian tribes were driven out of Texas by French settlers.
• Spanish explorers and French explorers both claimed land in Texas.
• Spanish colonists abandoned exploration of Texas after not finding any gold.

Which of these explorers landed at Matagorda Bay while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River?

• Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle
• Hernando Cortés
• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
  

Which motivation led early European explorers to investigate the Americas?

• Desire to find gold
• Desire to spread democracy
• Desire to leave overcrowded cities
• Desire to escape government monarchies

The Spanish and French claimed land in Texas during what time period?

• Texas Revolution
• World War II
• Age of Contact
• Natural Texas and It's People

Where did Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle land, although he was looking for the Mississippi river?

• Matagorda Bay
• San Antonio
• Los Adaes
• Austin

God, Gold, and Glory - 

• Reasons for exploration and colonization
• Reasons for spreading democracy 
• Reasons for staying in your own country
• Reasons for escaping government