Spanish Exploration and Colonization

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Across
  1. 2. Successful or Unsuccessful: The Spanish expeditions to the borderlands were mainly what?
  2. 4. these spanned the present-day southern United States from Florida to California.
  3. 5. Another name for a Spanish explorer
  4. 8. forts to protect settlers and food supply
  5. 9. Father Eusebio Francisco Kino set up this many missions
  6. 12. land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
  7. 17. This is the oldest European settlement in the Americas, Saint ___.
  8. 18. This class was born in the Americas to Spanish parents
  9. 19. Harsh treatment and ____ took the lives of a large number of indigenous people
  10. 20. He suggest that people from Africa could be brought over as slaves
  11. 23. Spanish social order had how many classes?
  12. 24. this is the estimated amount of slaves brought to the Americas between the 1500-1800s
  13. 25. First spanish colony was in this western part of the Americas
Down
  1. 1. sought to control the Florida waterways
  2. 3. Hernando ____ searched for the fabled Lost City of Gold
  3. 6. The Spanish settlers founded the first what in Mexico?
  4. 7. gold and ___ were two big mines that the Spanish discovered
  5. 10. This contained a large plaza in the center
  6. 11. Ponce de Leon searched unsuccessfully for this fabled thing: the fountain of what?
  7. 13. Don Pedro de Peralta founded this capital of New Mexico
  8. 14. Bartolome de Las Casas sought this to help stop the harsh treatment of the indigenous
  9. 15. The largest class of settlers in New Spain were the what?
  10. 16. This revolt happened because of the harsh punishment that the indigenous recieved
  11. 21. Spanish settlers brought slaves from Africa to do this type of heavy farming
  12. 22. largest class of settlers in New Spain