SocialStudies Chap3 Test
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- Because of inflation in Spain and the Spanish Armada's defeat
- Spain's golden age gradually came to an end
- Ponce de Leon came to the Americas to find
- gold and the fountain of youth
- which type of Spanish settlements were towns that served as trading posts and centers of local governments
- pueblos
- the most important spanish settlement in new mexico and one of the most important in the borderlands was
- Santa Fe
- The printing press
- helped spread the Protestant Reformation
- Port Royal and Quebec were founded by
- Champlain, who also explored parts of what are now New York and Vermont
- Of the European countries that sought wealth in the Americas the one that most profited was
- Spain
- After Coronado captured Cibola, he discovere that it contained
- nothing but adobe buildings and bushels of corn
- Reforms in the encomienda system were triggered by efforts of
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- Malintzin, an American Indian woman served as guide and interpreter for
- Cortes
- Because american indian resistance and high death rates from disease made the encomienda system less successful in Florida and Caribbean, the Spanish...
- brought enslaved Africans to work in New Spain
- The Protestant Reformation began in
- Germany
- The Anglican church was founded by
- King Henry VIII
- Who was the ruler of the Aztec Empire when Cortes captured it?
- Moctezuma
- The Roanoke Colony was resttled in 1587 by
- John White
- In remote frontier areas, the Spanish built military bases called
- presidios
- THe Spanish claim to the Pacific coast of North America was established by
- Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo
- Texas' main Spanish settlement until 1700s was
- the mission of El Paso
- THe Roanoke colony was
- discovered mysteriously deserted in 1590
- Which Spanish explorer did the Aztecs believe was Quetzalcoatl?
- Cortes
- The Spanish Armada was
- weakened by a series of delays and poor leadership, and destroyed in a storm
- which river made exploration of the southern parts of America possible
- Mississippi
- invasion fleet assembled by King Philip II to invade England, overthrow QUeen Elizabeth I and return England to the Roman Catholic church
- Spanish Armada
- "The King's Road" a road network that connected the communities of New Spain
- El Camino Real
- reformers who protested the catholc church's practices
- Protestants
- Spanish soldiers and exporers who led military expeditions in the americas
- conquistadores
- a group of royal officials who oversaw all government in Spanish America
- Council of the Indies
- a region along the edge of New Spain including northern Mexico Florida and parts of present-day California Arizona, New Mexico and Texas
- borderlands
- a group of English sailors who raided Spanish treasure ships for Queen Elizabeth I
- sea dogs
- large farms that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop
- plantation
- document granting permission to establish a colony
- charter
- an increase in the amount of money in circulation and in the price of foods
- inflation