Texas History Six Weeks Test Review
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- This city had a lot of gold, jewels, and silver. It was the Aztec capital.
- Tenochtitlan
- ______wages an unofficial war on a country
- fillibuster
- a Spanish fort that protects missions
- presidio
- catechism
- a set of questions and answers about Catholic beliefs
- pirate
- person who steals from ships on the sea
- republic
- a nation in which voters elect representatives to make laws
- cede
- to formally give up ownership of something
- What was the legendary place El Turco told of? It supposedly held many treasures that the Spanish could use.
- Quivira
- people who want to limit change and keep old ways
- conservatives
- What French explorer claimed the Mississippi River and its valley for France? He was killed in a mutiny and built Fort St. Louis.
- La Salle
- class
- social rank
- Who started missions in East Texas around 1716?
- Captain Domingo Ramon
- Who was apart of the establishment of the first East Texas mission along with Alonso de Leon?
- Father Damian Massanet
- mission
- a sttlement designed to convert Native Americans to Christianity
- What mission was known for being the site of the famous Chicken War?
- Los Adaes
- Corpus Christi de la Ysleta
- the first mission in Texas near present day El Paso. It was located among the Tigua people.
- San Antonio de Valero
- was built in 1718 located near present day San Antonio. This site was chosen because it was a good halfway point between the Rio Grande and East Texas.
- This mission was located in Comanche territory for the Lipan Apaches was built in 1757. What mission is this?
- Santa Cruz de San Saba
- epidemic
- the rapid spread of disease over a short period of time
- These were conquered by Cortes on his second attack. They called themselves Mexica which is where the modern day word Mexico comes from.
- Aztec