1. Age of Contact – European Exploration
Spain
France
Explorer
Goal
Legacy
Cortes
explore the new world and find gold
defeated AZTECS
Pineda
(1519)
find a new water route to Asia
created the first MAP of TX coastline
Cabeza de Vaca
explore land north of Rio Grande
lived among NAs; wrote a BOOK
Coronado
search for 7 CITIES OF CIBOLA (GOLD)
TX Panhandle
La Salle
set up trading post at mouth of river
set up FRENCH settlement in TX; killed by mutiny

2.   Missions Review S A M E Goal of the mission Who lived there?
Remembered for…
Success or Failure?
Ysleta
West Texas  
East Texas
(Tejas)
Missions
San Antonio Missions
Outcome of the mission system:
Once Mexico declared its independence from Spain, they closed the mission systems because they were mostly unsuccessful
Secure Texas for Spain & convert the Natives
First Mission in Texas
Priest
Soldiers
Puebloan People
Native Attacks
French attacks
Far away from supplies and help
Priest
Soldiers S
A M E
Southeastern People
Priest
Soldiers
Cooperative Natives
Closer to supplies and help
Coahuiltecan People

3. Father Francisco Hidalgo builds San Juan Bautista.
Place the number of the following on the map closest to where they were.
Caddo
Coahuiltecan
Tigua
French Settlement
Mexico
San Antonio Missions
Tejas Missions
Ysleta
Rio Grande
Gulf of Mexico
1690 – Father Damian Massanet set up the first mission in East Texas called San Francisco de los Tejas. 1 3 7 4 8 2 9 6
Father Francisco Hidalgo builds San Juan Bautista. 10
Jose de Escandon founded Laredo and 20 other settlements near the Rio Grande. 5