Ch 2 Key Terms

What is the term for a Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain?

• Conquistador

• Viceroy

• Missionary

• Caballero

What is the term for a town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other Native American groups in the American Southwest?

• pueblo

• mission

• hacienda

• ranchero

What is the term for a fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies?

• presidio

• hacienda

• pueblo

• mission

What is the term for a religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new area?

• mission

• colony

• fort

• plantation

What is the term for a person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony?

• peninsular

• mestizo

• creole

• mulatto

What is the term for a person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents?

• Creole

• Mestizo

• Peninsulare

• Mulatto

What is the term for, in Spain's American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background?

• mestizo

• criollo

• peninsulare

• mulatto

What is the term that means clever?

• Shrewd

• Clumsy

• Dull

• Lazy

What is the term that means to stop briefly because of nervousness?

• hesitate

• continue

• ignore

• rush

What is the term for a waterway through or around North America?

• Northwest passage

• Suez Canal

• Panama Canal

• Great Barrier Reef