OFFICIAL Unit 3 REVIEW: Age of Contact/Spanish Colonial

Motivation for Explorers

• establish settlements

• cheap land

• gold

• explorers made contact with the new world

What drove the Americans to Mexican Texas in the 1820's

• survival using your surroundings

• cheap land

• gold

• to teach Natives about Christ

Filibuster

• Spain built missions as a way to control the land for their country

• He was spying for the French

• They wanted to continue the rebellion led by Father Hidalgo for Mexican Independence

• Person who does rebellious acts in a foreign county

Colonial or colonize

• Explorers made contact with the New World

• survival using your surroundings

• establish settlements

• to teach Natives about Christ

Landed at matagorda bay by accident while looking for the Mouth of the Mississippi

• Hernando Cortes

• Rene Robert Cabelier Sieur de La Salle

• Coronado

Damian Massanet established a Mission in East Texas because

• the French were building settlements

• to teach Natives about Christ

• La Salle

• the first French Colony in Texas (1600's)

1803

• Mexican Independence

• LaSalle establishes Ft. Saint Luis

• Louisiana Purchase

• Pineda mapped the coastline of Texas

Fort St. Luis

• the first French Colony in Texas (1600's)

• Explorers made contact with the New World

• First European to step foot on Texas soil

• Lasalle

City founded in 1718

• Spain built missions as a way to control the land for their country

• James Long

• Loss for Guitierrez Magee Expedition

• San Antonio

Age of Contact Era

• Explorers made contact with the New World

• First European to step foot on Texas soil

• the first French Colony in Texas (1600's)

• La Salle