Unit 1 vocab words

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

A Spanish explorer who helped conquer new lands in America

Question 1

Colony

Answer 1

A territory that’s controlled by a foreign county

Question 2

Treaty of tordesillas

Answer 2

An agreement in 1491 between Spanish and Portugal which divided land

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

An idea that a country should earn more money from selling rather than buying

Question 4

Subsidies

Answer 4

Financial support given by the government to help businesses or projects they thought were useful

Question 5

Plantation

Answer 5

A large farm that grows crops
Enslaved people worked there farms

Question 6

Middle passage

Answer 6

Slave trade where enslaved Africans were transported from Africa to America

Question 7

Peninsulares

Answer 7

A person born and from Spain and Portugal

Question 8

Creole

Answer 8

People of European dependent from in the americas

Question 9

Mestizo

Answer 9

Person mixed of European and native decendent

Question 10

Mulatto

Answer 10

Person mixed of African and European

Question 11

Encomienda

Answer 11

A system where Spanish colonist were given the right to demand labor from natives

Question 12

Mita

Answer 12

Native people were forced to work for the Spanish