History 8 - Topic 2 - Lessons 2.1-2.2

Spanish conquerors who marched into the Amerias in the 1500s

• Explorers
• Presidios

• Mestizos

• Conquistadors

Spanish settlements (towns) in the Americas

• Pueblos

• Mestizos

• Conquistadors

• Presidios

Forts where soliders lived. The first was in St. Augustine, Florida.

• Conquistadors

• Mestizos

• Presidios

• Pueblos

Settlements run by Catholic priests and friars whose goal was to convert Indians to Christianity

• Presidios

• Missions

• Mestizos

• Conquistadors

The highest social class in New Spain, who held the highest jobs in government and the church, and owned land and mines

• Friars

• Metizos

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

people born in the Americas to parents of Spanish origin

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Peninsulares

• Presidios

People of mixed Spanish and Indian background

• Mestizos

• Creoles

• Presidios

• Peninsulares

the waterway through or around North America

• Amazon River
• The Northwest Passage

• Panama Canal
• Mississippi River

to develop or be the first to do something

• imitated

• innovated

• pioneered

• replicated

French "runners of the woods"

• coureurs des bois
• coureurs de la ville
• coureurs des champs
• coureurs de la forêt