S2 Unit 6 Exploration 2

Who had economic and political power in the Americas

• Spaniards

• indigenous people

• criollos

• mestizos

Who governed the new territories for Spain?

• The King

• The Captain of the Voyage

• The Viceroy

• The Criollo

• The Mestizo

A land ruled by another country is called a __________.

• Viceroy

• Country

• Colony

• Estate

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

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.

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

• Africans

• Canadians

• French

• Italians

Missionaries set up _________ , which were religious settlements.

• presidios

• missions

• aviles

• El Camino Real

In New Spain, colonists could make their own laws.

• True

• False