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24 Cards in this Set
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Mission_________ was the "Mother of Texas Missions"
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San Juan Bautista
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Gov. of Coahuila wanted to re-occupy missions abandoned by the French
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French presidio
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What famous document did Thomas Jefferson write?
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Declaration of Independence
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Means "to give up"
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cede
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THe __________ river drains the land of the Louisiana Purchase
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Mississippi
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THe size of the U.S. ________ after the purchase of Louisiana
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doubled
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La Salles fort
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Fort St. Louis
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Ruler of France at the time of the Louisiana Purchase
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Napoleon
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WHo was the president when Louisiana was purchased?
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THomas Jefferson
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Father ________ wrote to the French asking for a mission among the Tejas
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Francisco Hidalgo
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Father _________ led 3 friars and 100 soldiers to East Tx to build a mission among the Tejas
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Massanet
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THe country the U.S. purchased Louisiana from
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France
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THe ________ Treaty ended the dispute between Spain and the United States over the Texas border
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Adams- Onis
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What settlement was built to convert the Karankawas that lived around it? It was made up of the mission Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo de Zuniga near Matagorda Bay and the presidio nearby.
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La Bahía
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THe building of ___________ was risky because the closest Spanish settlement was more than 100 miles away. A presidio was built nearby. However, in 1769 Comanches burned the mission to the ground, signaling the terrible defeat for the Spanish.
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Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba
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Marques Aguayo built presidio __________ not far from present day Robeline, Louisiana, near the French post of Natchitoches. Louis de St. Denis protested that this presidio was built in French territory.
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Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes
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THese are the most important civilian Spanish settlements in Texas, still in existence today.
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Goliad, San Antonio, Nacogdoches, Los Adaes
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____________ was appointed by the French gov't to negotiate with the Spanish. He also built the French trading post, Natchitoches.
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Louis de St. Denis
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________ ran the Missions.
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Friars
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What country prompted Spanish officials to make a stronger effort to establish missions in east Texas?
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France
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THe first permanent settlement of Europeans in TExas was __________.
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Corpus Christi de la Ysleta
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What settlement became the unofficial capital of Texas in 1722?
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Los Adaes
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A result of La Salles second voyage to the Americas was a fort built amongst the _________ tribe.
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Karankawa
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A result of La Salles first voyage to the Americas was a settlement built at the mouth of the Mississippi River called ___________.
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New Orleans
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