Unit 3 vocabulary

Travel undertaken to discover new resources

• viceroy

• conquistador

• exploration

• expedition

a journey undertaken by a group of people

• expedition

• exploration

• presidio

• El Camino Real

a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• conquistador

• ranchos

• mission

• Canary Islanders

Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the New World

• viceroy

• conquistador

• Canary Islander

• El Camino Real

a settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people in the area

• mission

• ranchos

• colonization

• presidio

a military post or guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control

• presidio

• mission

• ranchos

• colonization

state-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• colonization

• ranchos

• civil settlements

• exploration

first settlers in Texas, settled in San Antonio

• Canary Islanders

• ranchos

• civil settlements

• presidio