2.3 Spain in America

What is a conquistador?

• A visitor from another country.

• spanish explorers who received grants from their rulers and gained rights to explore and establish settlements.

• spanish explorers who received food from their slaves and masters.

• friends from Doherty

What were towns that were the center of trade called?

• Penninsulares

• Missions

• Pueblos

• Mestizos

The _______ was a conflict in which the Pequot nation battled Connecticut colonists and the Narragansett allies.

• Pequot War

• French and Indian War

Spanish towns in the Americas were called ____________ .

• hoods

• pueblos

• forts

• metros

Spanish religious farming communities were called missions.

• True

• False

A presidio was a type of Spanish food.

• True

• False

What three things did most conquistadors hope to accomplish?

• find a route to Asia, sail around the world, create maps

• acquire riches, claim land for Spain, convert Native Americans to Christianity

• build monuments, farm crops, trade goods

• set up markets, learn to speak English, start a family

Whom did Las Casas try to protect?

• presidents

• Native Americans

• presidio

• none of the above

How were the Spanish able to defeat mighty Native American empires?

• Weapons and animals

• oil and knives

• disease

• The Aztecs assisted the conquistadors in overthrowing them

How did stories of the seven cities of Cibola affect Spanish exploration? Select all of the true statements

• They went to the United States

• They went to Mexico and did not find anything there

• They heard stories that there was gold in Mexico.

• They returned to Mexico.