Spanish Colonial Era TEST

The _________________________________ was mainly when SPAIN built SETTLEMENTS and COMMUNITIES in the NEW WORLD through the MISSION SYSTEM.

• Age of Contact

• Spanish Colonial Era

• Conflicts of Empire

• Mexican National Era

Missions, Presidios, Civilian Settlements/Villas, and Ranchos made up the Spanish _______________ system.

• Mission

• Settlement

• Colony

• Claimer

Spanish religious settlements built to spread Catholicism/Christianity.

• Mission

• Presidio

• Villa

• Rancho

Spanish Military settlements built to protect missions and villages in the New World.

• Mission

• Presidio

• Villa

• Rancho

Spanish villages built in the New World to support the missions and populate land claims

• Mission

• Presidio

• Villa

• Rancho

Spanish ranches built in the New World to make a profit from the cattle industry and support the missions.

• Mission

• Presidio

• Villa

• Rancho

All of the following are reasons why Spain colonized the new world EXCEPT...

• Convert Native Americans to Christianity

• Develop Settlements and populate the borderlands (claimed land in TEXAS)

• Represent Spanish government

• Establish trade with the French.

Spanish Missions were built along which geographical feature?

• Native American Vilages

• Canyons

• Forests

• Rivers

The first mission Corpus Christi de la Ysleta was built in what area of Texas?

• North

• South

• East

• West

The SAN FRANCISCO DE LOS TEJAS was a mission in which area of Texas?

• North

• South

• East

• West