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Social Studies - Vocab and People to Identify
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History
7th Grade
01/07/2012

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Pueblos
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Spanish towns in the Americas.
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Missions
Definition
Settlements established by priests in Spanish America to convert local indians to Catholicism.
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Presidios
Definition
Spanish military bases located in the Americas.
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Encomienda system
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System in Spanish America that gave settlers the right  to tax local indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills.
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Plantations
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Large farms that usually specialize in growing one kind of crop.
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Borderlands
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Region of Spanish AMerica where few Europeans lived; included northern Mexico, Florida, and parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
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Council of the indies
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Supreme governing body of Spanish colonies in America.
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Pope
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A Pueblo, medicine man, got together some other pueblo people and drove the Spanish out of New Mexico.
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El Camino Real
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Also called "The Royal Road." It was used to connect all of the small communities in New Spain.
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Bartolomé de Las Casas
Definition
An encomendero who later became a Catholic priest and worked to protect the rights of American Indians.
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Juan de Oñate
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He was the first person to set out for New Mexico to explore and start a colony. He helped found the town of Santa Fe. Santa Fe later became a trade center and the most important Spanish settlement in New Mexico.
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Sea Dogs
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English sailors encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish treasure ships in the late 1500s.
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Inflation
Definition
Increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money.
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Martin Luther
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He used to be a Catholic priest in Germany. He became well known for protesting the politics of the Catholic Church. He Started the Protestant Reformation by, nailing a list of 95 theses about the Catholic Church.
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Protestant Reformation
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A religious movement that began as an effort to reform the church.
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Protestants
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These were what the reformers (people)became known as because they "protested" the Catholic Church's practices.
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Henry VIII
Definition
The King of England. He founded the Church of England, or the Anglican Church. Then, by making himself the head of the Anglican Church, Henry defied the authority of the pope.
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Philip II
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He was the King of Spain.He used Spain's great wealth to lead a Catholic Reformation against the Protestant movement. He was wanting to get the Protestants out of England too but Queen Elizabeth was in his way because she was a Protestant as well.
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Elizabeth I
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The daughter of King Henry VIII, now Queen of England. She was a Protestant herself, wanted peace between England's Protestants and Catholics. She didn't want to go to war so she made use of the sea dogs.She encouraged them to raid the Spanish ships. The raid was sucsessful and it also hurt Spain's economy.
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Francis Drake
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He was the most successful sea dog. He didn't just help defeat the Spanish. He,and his crew, became the first English people to sail around the world.
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Spanish Armada
Definition
A huge fleet,of about 130ships and some 27,000 sailors and soldiers, was gathered by King Philip, hopeing to overthrow both the Queen of England and the Anglican Church. Later, King Philip found out that the Spanish Armada had lost the battle.
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René-Robert de La Salle
Definition
He followed the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. He claimed the Mississippi Vally for King Louis XIV of France.
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Peter Minuit
Definition
A Dutch setteler bought Manhattan Island from local American Indians. There he founded the town of New Amsterdam. He later helped Sweden.
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Charter
Definition
Official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Definition
He paid for an expedition that landed in present-day Virginia. Later he founded a colony on Roanoke Island.
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