Unit 2 Vocab

A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• Conquistador

• Viceroy

• Friar

• Missionary

A journey undertaken by a group of people

• Expedition

• Mission

• Frontier

• Settlement

Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

• Exploration

• Mission

• Frontier

• Colonization

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

• Viceroy

• Conquistador

• Friar

• Missionary

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

• Mission

• Presidio

• Settlement

• Colonization

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

• Presidio

• Mission

• Settlement

• Quarters

State-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• Colonization

• Exploration

• Settlement

• Frontier