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Ch. 16 Section 2
definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Viceroy | a royal official who runs a country, colony, or city province (or state) in the name of and as representative of the monarch. |
| Plantation | a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale |
| Encomienda | the crown granted a person a specified number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility |
| Peon Peninsular | Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland Spaniard residing in the New World, as opposed to a person of full Spanish descent born in the Americas or Philippines |
| Creole | A person of European descent born in the West Indies or Spanish America |
| Mestizo | people of mixed European and Native heritage or descent. |
| Mulatto | identifying a person with one white parent and one black parent, |
| Privateer | a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. |