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Texas History Issue 6

Across
Peaceful Indians in East Texas that will more like Europeans than Indians.
To carry your boat from one river or lake to another
First visited the gulf coast in the 1500s
Joliet and ____travel down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas River and returned.
Established in 1683 near the present-day town of Menard under the direction of Juan Dominguez de Mendoza and father Nicolas Lopez.
____and Juan Dominguez de Mendoza led an expedition to the Jumano Indians in 1683.
____was the Indian word for friendly.
Started mission San Miguel and Mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores
Was originally named Mission San Miguel in Louisiana
La Salle reach the Gulf of Mexico and built a fort at____in Texas.
Down
Some French colonialist came to America for gold and some came to America for the____.
Marquette and____traveled by canoe from Lake Michigan up a small river into Wisconsin.
La Salle built ____ in Texas but it was abandoned in 1687.
Was originally named Espiritu Santo
The original name for El Paso
In 1682 he was the first explorer to lead a party of explorers down the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
This Indian tribe fooled the Spanish into believing that they want to learn the Gospel. They really wanted protection from the Apache Indians.
____was a jailer who had a daughter that St Denis fell in love with.
Was established in the West and was part of of New Spain
In the winter of 1690-91 about 300 Indians died of____.
____and Massanet gave the name "Tejas" to the friendly Indians they met.