Spanish Colonization Vocabulary

People who move to live in colonies

• Assimilate

• Founded

• Colonist

• Quarters

Wildly dispersed farm headquarters for Spanish Vaqueros (Cowboys), where cattle or other animals are bred and raised.

• Quarters

• Economy

• Mission Presidio System

• Rancho/Ranches

Religious settlements or religious communities whose purpose is to convert Native people to Catholicism.

• Frontier

• Territorial Conflicts

• Missions

• Presidios

To establish or create

• Assimilate

• Founded

• Colonist

• Quarters

Spanish military fort where soldiers live.

• Frontier

• Territorial Conflicts

• Missions

• Presidios

Land that is very far away from where most people lived

• Frontier

• Territorial Conflicts

• Missions

• Presidios

System of missions and presidios working together to convert Natives and protect the Spanish claim to the land. 

• Quarters

• Economy

• Mission Presidio System

• Rancho/Ranches

Give up their old culture and way of life, and adopt a new culture and way of life.

• Assimilate

• Founded

• Colonist

• Quarters

Everything related to how people make and spend money.

• Quarters

• Economy

• Mission Presidio System

• Rancho/Ranches

Occurs when people or countries fight over land.

• Frontier

• Territorial Conflicts

• Missions

• Presidios