Chapter 7 Vocab

Chapter 7 Vocab

Peninsular

• A person who was born in Spain but who lived in Mexico after the Spanish took control.

Criollo

• A person born in Mexico whose parents were born in Spain.

Mestizo

• A person of mixed European and Native American ancestry.

Encomienda

• A system that the rulers of Spain established in Mexico, under which Spanish men received a Native American Village to oversee and gain tribute from.  

Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Known as the father of a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, a leader of the Mexican War of Independence, and recognized as the Father of the Nation.  

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•  A treaty that the United States forced Mexico to sign in 1848, giving Mexico’s northern lands to the United States.  

Gadsden Purchase

•  The 1853 purchase by the United States of a piece of land from Northern Mexico.