God-Gold-GloryMotivation for

European exploration and conquest of the

Americas.

Pocahontas

Conquistadors

Spanish soldiers and explorers who came to the Americas in search of

wealth and land.

Columbian Exchange

The transfer of plants, animals, slaves, and diseases between the Americas

and Europe beginning with the voyages of Columbus

Settlement

A small community or village of settlers who establish political control in a new

place

Expedition

A journey (trip) by a group of people to explore unknown

places, usually involving some danger or risk.

Explorer

A person who travels to discover new places

Colony

A group of people who leave their native country and settle

in a new land ruled by or connected with the parent

nation

Mission

Religious settlement established by the Spanish to

spread Catholicism in the Americas.

Viceroy

A person who rules a colony for a king or

queen like a governor.

La Belle

Last ship of the failed La Salle expedition which was shipwrecked in a

storm.

Commission

Assignment or permission given to someone in order

to carry out a task.

1519

Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, a Spanish explorer, was the first known

European to explore and map the Texas coastline.

Alonso Alvarez

de Pineda

The first explorer and first European to see and map the Gulf of Mexico and the

coast of Texas.

Francisco Coronado

Spanish explorer that was sent to the American Southwest to search for Gold and the Seven

Cities of Gold.

Cabeza de Vaca

First European to explore what is now Texas and the

southwestern US

Sieur de LaSalle

French explorer sent to establish a French colony on

the Mississippi River

Catholicism

The Christian church of which the pope of Rome is the supreme

head

Fort St. Louis

First French colony established in the Americas by French explorer, Sieur de

La Salle.