Chapter 5 The Spanish Explore Texas

Christopher Columbus’s voyage indicated a possible sea route to Asia.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Conquistadores helped to conquer and settle lands in the Americas for Spain.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The first Spanish settlement in an area of the Americas was usually a mission.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca mapped the coastline from Florida to Texas in 1519.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Karankawa killed all of the Spanish who shipwrecked on an island near today’s Galveston.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which sequence explains how events in Europe in the 1400s led to the Age of Contact in Texas in the 1500s and 1600s?

• Europe to Asia land routes not mapped → European traders got lost → Spanish explorers accidentally find Texas

• Europeans search for sea routes to Asia → Spanish come to the Americas → Spanish conquistadores explore Texas

• Ottomans force traders to go by sea to Asia → Columbus makes contact with the Karankawa → Spanish settlers move to Texas

• European traders lack navigation tools to travel by land to Asia → go by sea instead → Spain discovers Texas

What was the name of the Spanish empire in the Americas?

• Tenochtitlán

• Mexico

• Texas

• New Spain

What was the purpose of Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition?

• to convert the Karankawa

• to set up trading posts

• to gain lands between Florida and Mexico

• to explore Texas

What was the effect of Cabeza de Vaca’s journey through Texas in 1535–36?

• He became very wealthy because of the gold and minerals he found.

• He founded the settlement of Galveston.

• His stories encouraged other conquistadores to explore Texas.

• His expedition discouraged the French from settling Texas.

What did Cabeza de Vaca find on his journey through present-day Texas?

• treasure-filled cities

• Native Americans and bison

• Karankawa, gold, and cattle

• Catholic missions