CHAPTERS 2,3

Iberian peninsula

Castile-Aragon

Hernan Cortez

Narvaez expedition

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Estevan (Estevanico)

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Quivira

Hernando de Soto

Juan de Onate

Sieur de La Salle

Fort St. Louis

San Francisco de los Tejas

Father Francisco Hidalgo

San Juan Bautista

Louis St. Denis

Nuesta Senora Guadalupe de los Nacogdoches

San Antonio de Baxar

Villa San Fernando de Bexar

La Bahia (Goliad)

San Saba de la Santa Cruz

Missions

Presidios

Villa

alcalde

Laredo

Seven Years' War

Pedro (Pierre) Vial

General James Wilkinson

Neutral Ground Agreement

William Barr & Peter Davenport

filibuster

Philip Nolan

Grito de Dolores

criollos

mestizos

Bautist de las Casas

Augustus W. Magee

Jean Lafitte

Baron de Bastrop

Moses Austin

Agustin de Iturbide

Explain why Spain came to the New World and why the Spanish settled in Texas. What was the role that Missions, Presidios, Villas, Ranchos and farms played in Spanish Texas?

How did events in Europe affect New Spain and Texas in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. How did Mexico become independent? How did Texas fit into the independence movement? What is the legacy Spain left in Texas?