Vocabulary 1
People 1
Colonies
People 2
Vocabulary 2
100
Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas.
What are conquistadores.
100
A conquistadore from Spain who killed King Motezuma II in 1519 and defeated the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes.
100
This colony built its first North American settlement in Florida.
Who are the French.
100
Conquistador who was in Peru and fought with Pizzaro and led some 600 conquistadors north in search for gold in Florida, Mississippi River, and southern states in 1539-1542.
Who is Hernando de Soto.
100
Large farms that grew just one kind of crop.
What are plantations.
200
Trading posts and sometimes as centers of government.
What are Pueblos
200
A conquistador who traveled with the explorer Nunez de Balboa in 1531 and defeated the Inca empire and killed Atahualpa.
Who is Francisco Pizarro.
200
This colony called the land between the Delaware and Hudson Rivers New Netherland.
Who are the Dutch.
200
A Portuguese explorer who claimed Pacific Coast for Spain and sailed 1,200 miles along the Pacific Coast in 1542 in California.
Who is Juan Cabrillo.
200
Outer reaches of an empire.
What are borderlands.
300
Converting local American Indians to Catholicism.
What are missions.
300
A conquistador from Spain in 1531 who found Florida and was looking for the fountain of youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon.
300
This colony found carved into a post was the word CROATOAN.
Who are the English.
300
An encomendero who later became a priest against the encomienda system.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas.
300
Veteran English sailors whom Elizabeth encouraged to raid Spanish treasure ships.
What are sea dogs.
400
Military forts, to protect towns and missions.
What are presidios.
400
Explorer from Spain who was also searching for the fountain of youth in 1528-1542. Who went from Florida to the Gulf of Mexico to Texas to New Mexico.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.
400
This colony were among the first in North America to build log cabins. This colony was very small.
Who are the Swedish.
400
A Spanish man who settled New Mexico, fought with Pueblo Indians in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1598- 1610.
Who is Juan Ode Onate
400
A rise in the amount of money in use and thus in the price of goods.
What is inflation.
500
A system that gave Spanish settlers known as encomenderos the right to tax local American Indians or to make them work.
What is the encomienda system.
500
A conquistador in 1540-1542 looking for treasure in New Mexico and Kansas.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.
500
Name all 4 of the colonies in the chapter.
What are the Dutch, English, French, Swedish.
500
A king who used Spains great wealth to lead a catholic Reformation against the Protestant movement in the late 1500s in the Netherlands.
Who is Philip II.
500
a document giving royal permission to start a colony
What is a charter.
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