
What is a colony?

What is a plantation?

Which settlement was farthest north?

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.
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?
Why did Spain set up colonies in North America? Spain wanted to its land and to convert to .