Chapter 4 Vocabulary

2. – A person who rules a country as a representative of his king and is empowered to act in the king’s name.
6. – A journey made for a special purpose.
9. – A land agent who recruits new settlers, divides up property, and keeps the law.
11. – A Spanish military fort.
12. – The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another.
14. crop – A crop grown to sell at market.
15. – A Spanish cowboy.
16. – The practice of owning people and forcing them to work without pay.

1. – A settlement of people who have moved to another country but are still ruled by their home country.
3. – A conqueror, especially one of Spanish descent from the sixteenth century.
4. – A Hispanic celebration that a girl might have on her fifteenth birthday to mark the transition from childhood to adult status.
5. – Volunteer soldiers.
7. – The limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness.
8. – A Spanish town.
10. – A settlement where religion is taught.
13. – A person who moves to a new country.