Spanish Colonies (New Spain)
Spain’s large North American colony with its capital in Mexico City.
What is New Spain?
Religious communities built by Spain in the Americas.
What are missions?
The English business that founded the Virginia colony.
What is the Virginia Company?
A deadly period of hunger faced by Jamestown settlers.
What is the Starving Time?
English settlers who signed an agreement aboard the Mayflower.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The governor who ruled New Spain on behalf of the Spanish king.
Who is the viceroy?
The main goal of Spanish missions.
What is converting Native Americans to Christianity?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
One major cause of death among early Jamestown settlers.
What is disease?
An agreement created by the Pilgrims to make fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
People born in Spain who were at the top of the social class system.
Who are peninsulares?
A person sent to spread Christianity and Spanish culture.
Who is a missionary?
The year Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
Conflicts between Jamestown settlers and this group caused problems.
Who are Native Americans?
The Mayflower Compact is an early example of this type of government.
What is self-government?
Spaniards born in the Americas who ranked below peninsulares.
Who are creoles?
Spanish labor system that forced Native Americans to work for colonists.
What is the encomienda system?
A valuable crop that helped Jamestown succeed.
What is tobacco?
An English colony where all settlers mysteriously disappeared.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
People chosen to speak for others in government.
Who are representatives?
The two groups at the lowest level of New Spain’s social structure.
Who are Native Americans and enslaved Africans?
In theory, Spanish colonists were supposed to do this for Native Americans under encomienda.
What is protect them?
A crop grown to sell for profit in the colonies.
What is a cash crop?
Roanoke is called “lost” because this happened to the settlers.
What is they disappeared?
Permission from the English king to start a colony.
What is a royal charter?