vocab topic 2: lessons 1&2

Question 1

a spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

Answer 1

conquistador

Question 2

a town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other American Indian groups in American Southwest

Answer 2

pueblo

Question 3

a port where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies

Answer 3

presidio

Question 4

a religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread religions into a new area

Answer 4

mission

Question 5

a person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony

Answer 5

peninsular

Question 6

a person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents

Answer 6

creole

Question 7

in Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background

Answer 7

mestizo

Question 8

clever

Answer 8

shrewd

Question 9

to stop briefly because of nervousness.

Answer 9

hesitate

Question 10

a waterway through or around North America

Answer 10

northwest passage

Question 11

a French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper

Answer 11

coureurs de bois

Question 12

an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another

Answer 12

alliance

Question 13

a legal document giving certain rights to a person or colony

Answer 13

charter

Question 14

a representative to the colonial Virginia government

Answer 14

burgess

Question 15

a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

Answer 15

representative government

Question 16

a 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government

Answer 16

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 17

someone who is one of the first people to move to and live in a new area

Answer 17

pioneer

Question 18

to indicate or be a sign of

Answer 18

signify