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Fall Semester Review Part 2
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History
7th Grade
01/14/2009

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The Lady in Blue was a
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Spanish nun who claimed her spirit traveled to the New World
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The Spanish explorers discovered that Cíbola was actually a
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Zuni village
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Members of Coronado’s expedition described the plains as
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having lakes “round as plates.”
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La Salle led the first European expedition to navigate the Mississippi to the
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Gulf of Mexico
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All the following describe La Salle’s second expedition EXCEPT
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three ships landed safely at Matagorda Bay
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The Aztec city where “every kind of merchandise” was for sale was
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Tenochtitlán
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The San Xavier missions on the San Gabriel River were set up to serve the
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Tonkawas
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The boundary between French and Spanish settlements in East Texas was
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Arroyo Hondo
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The first permanent Spanish settlement in Texas was
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Corpus Christi de la Ysleta
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Which is NOT a reason the missions failed to Christianize the Plains people?
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The missions lacked adequate water
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A Spanish military outpost is a/an
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presidio
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The Spanish governor’s wife, known as La Brigaderia, who ran affairs of state while her husband was away was
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María Pérez Cassiano
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In 1699, the French established Biloxi on the Gulf Coast to
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reinforce France’s claim to the lands drained by the Mississippi River
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When Spanish officials learned of La Salle’s fort in Texas they
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sent troops to destroy it
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The chief official of the local city councils was given the title
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alcalde
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French traders made large profits exchanging blankets, guns, and wine for
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furs and skins.
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People of mixed Spanish and Native American blood are called
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alcaldes
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Unlike the Spanish explorers, the French were not interested in
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converting Native Americans to Christianity
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A government in which voters choose people to represent them is a
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republic
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A government in which voters choose people to represent them is a
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republic
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Louis Michel Aury was appointed commissioner of Galveston by
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Mexicans who wanted independence from Spain
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The leader of the East Texans who founded Nacogdoches was
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Gil Ybarbo
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Filibusters were
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adventurers
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The Texas adventurer who captured Nacogdoches in 1819 with 300 rebels was
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James Long
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Stephen F. Austin decided a good place for a colony was
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between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers
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The central town of the first Irish colony in Texas was
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Refugio
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