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Chapter 4, Lesson 1 Vocabulary (Hause)

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What colony did Spain establish in 1535?

a)

New Spain

b)

Spain 2

c)

Espana

d)

Espaniola

2.

What is the word for a land ruled by another country?

a)

colony

b)

state

c)

establishment

d)

continent

3.

What was the capital of New Spain?

a)

Mexico City

b)

Spain

c)

New Spain

d)

Baja

4.

What is another word for large farms?

a)

plantations

b)

granjas

c)

ranchos

d)

communities

5.

What is the word for the practice of holding people against their will and forcing them to do things?

a)

slavery

b)

employment

c)

indentured

d)

intelligence

6.

Who spoke out for better treatment of Native Americans?

a)

Bartolome de las Casas

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Bartholomew Cassidine

d)

Hernan Cortes

7.

What is the word for lands on the edge of Spain's land claims?

a)

borderlands

b)

edges

c)

frontiers

d)

countries

8.

What is the word for forts that Spain built on the borderlands?

a)

presidios

b)

ranchos

c)

fortezas

d)

farms

9.

Who led the building of the first permanent settlement in Florida?

a)

Pedro Menendez de Aviles

b)

Hernando Cortes

c)

John Smith

d)

Francisco Pizarro

10.

What were the religious settlements that the missionaries build called?

a)

missions

b)

presidios

c)

forts

d)

churches

11.

What was the capital of the New Mexico colony called?

a)

Santa Fe

b)

Mexico City

c)

Nuevo Mexico

d)

Santa Mexico

12.

What is the word for large estates built in the borderlands?

a)

haciendas

b)

churches

c)

ranchos

d)

presidios