New Spain Review!

Why did the Spanish feel the need to set up a colony in North America?

• They wanted gold and glory.

• They wanted to protect the land that they claimed.

• They thought it would be cool to own land across the ocean.

• They wanted to become more important in the world.

A land ruled by another country is called a __________.

• Viceroy

• Country

• Colony

• Estate

Most of the colony of New Spain was in what is now _________.

• Texas

• New Mexico

• Venezuela

• Mexico

Large farms are sometimes called _________.

• massive farms

• plantations

• haciendas

• Missions

Why did Spain and Portugal need many workers?

• To construct buildings in their colonies.

• To fight against neighboring colonies.

• To grow crops and mine for gold and silver.

• To hunt and fish for the colony.

The practice of holding someone against their will and making them work without pay is called __________.

• indentured servant

• plantation

• colonizing

• slavery

Which group of people did the Spanish take as slaves first?

• Africans

• Native Americans

• Canadians

• Irish

True or False? Diseases such as measles, smallpox and the flu killed thousands of Native Americans.

• True

• False

What was Bartolome de Las Casas known for? (more than one is correct)

• He took great amounts of slaves to run his plantation.

• He spoke out against the mistreatment of slaves.

• He was a famous worker on a plantation in New Spain.

• He became the governor of New Spain.

As Native American slaves died or escaped, Spanish colonists began taking ____________ as slaves.

• Africans

• Canadians

• French

• Italians