Colonies of Spain

How did Spanish settlements affect the lives or Native Americans in New Spain?

• The Native Americans were happy to have the Spanish on their land.

• The Native Americans and Spanish worked together peacefully, each doing the same amount of work.

• The Spanish settlements had no effect on Native Americans.

• Native Americans died from disease, being overworked, and bad treatment

Why were the Peninsulares at the top of the social class structure?

• They were born in New Spain but had Spanish parents.

• They were a mixture of Spanish and Native American.

• They were born in Spain and were rich.

• They were native to North America.

Why were England, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands often at war with each other?

• They were all competing for land in the Americas

• They all wanted to trade with the Native Americans.

• They were trying to find a route to Asia.

• They were all conquistadors.

True or False: The fort at St. Augustine helped protect Spanish merchants,

• True

• False

True or False: Spain had colonies in what is now Texas and New York

• True

• False

True of False: Europeans started bringing Africans over as slaves when Native Americans died from sickness.

• True

• False

Define: Viceroy

• A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

• A person who rules a country or territory as a representative of the king or queen.

• A person sent to a new land to spread his or her religion

• The organization of people in a society according to wealth and power.

Define: Encomeinda

• A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

• A person sent to a new land to spread his or her religion

• The organization of people in a society according to wealth and power.

• A person who rules a country or territory as a representative of the king or queen.

Define: Class System

• A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

• A person sent to a new land to spread his or her religion

• The organization of people in a society according to wealth and power.

• A person who rules a country or territory as a representative of the king and queen.

Define: Missionary

• A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

• A person sent to a new land to spread his or her religion

• The organization of people in a society according to wealth or power.

• A person who rules a country or territory as a representative of the king or queen.