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15 Cards in this Set
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What is a colony?
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Land that is ruled by another country
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Colonists
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people who lived in the colony
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New Spain
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land in North America and South America that Spain ruled
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Capital of New Spain
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Mexico City
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Because the Spanish wanted gold...
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many colonists worked in gold and silver mines, but more workers were needed.
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Thousands of Spanish people came to
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New Spain.
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Native Americans were first used, but they died of ...
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poor treatment and disease brought by the Europeans.
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Bartolome de Las Casas
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Spanish priest who tried to improve the way Indians were treated.
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Spanish Borderlands
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The Spanish built forts (presidios) along the border of the lands that they claimed in order to protect the colonists and their mines
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The border is also called a
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Buffer Zone
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St. Augustine
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The first permanent European settlement in the New World.
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Castillo de San Marcos
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the only still standing structure from the early Spanish settlement of St. Augustine. This fort protected the CITY.
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Why did the Spanish use coquina shells to build the fort?
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The shells were soft and strong and ony dented when cannonballs struck the fort.
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Why did the King in Spain give the leadership of the colonies to the local Spanish rulers?
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It was a way to reward the King's favorite people, and it made it easier to rule the colonists.
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Horses
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The Spanish introduced the horse to the North American Indians.
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