Vocab - TX Hist Unit 3

a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• conquistador

• friar

• missionary

a journey undertaken by a group of people

• expedition

• settlement

• quarters

• mission

travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

• territorial claims

• exploration

• presidio

• treaties

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

• missionary

• friar

• viceroy

• colonizer

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

• mission

• colonization

• treaties

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

• settlement

• presidio

• quarters

• settlement

state-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• frontiers

• colonization

• quarters