
What is a colony?

What is a plantation?

Which settlement was farthest north?

Why did Spain set up colonies in North America? Spain wanted to its land and to convert to .
How did Spain protect its claims in the Americas?
How did slavery develop in the Americas? At first, were used as enslaved workers, and many . Then colonists used enslaved .
What was Spain's main goal in settling the borderlands?
About how many Europeans lived in the Western Hemisphere in 1550?
How did new animals change Native American life?
Write a sentence using the terms hacienda and mission to describe life on the borderlands. Spanish ranchers set up in New Spain, while missionaries set up to convert people to Christianity.