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- Mestizos
- a child or descendent of a Spanish colonists and a Native American
- Northwest Passage
- a waterfront through North America that would allow Europeans to sail west to Asia
- hacienda
- a plantation or a large ranch owned by Spanish colonists
- navigation
- to control a ship
- mission
- a settlement of missionaries
- charter
- a written agreement giving someone the right to establish a colony
- presidio
- a spanish fort
- armada
- a large number of warships acting togethr like an army's
- invest
- to put money into a business in the hope of earning a profit
- invasion
- the entrance of an armed force into another country in order to conquer it
- settlement
- a small community of people in a frontier region
- viceroy
- a person sent by the king to rule a colony
- colony
- a settlement ruled by a distant country
- stock
- a share or part of a companies
- indentured servant
- a person who agreed to work for a certain number of years in return for passage to America, food, clothing, and shelter