Ch17Sec4GR
Guided Reading 17-4
1. In the sixteenth century, Portugal came to dominate ____________________. Spain’s empire included parts of ____________________, ____________________, and ____________________ America.
2. By 1501, Spanish rulers permitted ____________________ between Europeans and Native Americans, whose offspring became known as ____________________.
3. A noticeable feature of Latin American ____________________ was the dominant role of the large landowner.
4. Portuguese Brazil and Spanish Latin America were colonial ____________________ that lasted over three hundred years.
5. Catholic missionaries, especially the ____________________, ____________________, and ____________________, fanned out to different parts of the Spanish Empire.
6. The United Kingdom of Great Brittan came into existence in 1707, when the governments of ____________________ and ____________________ were united.
7. William Pitt the Elder expanded the British Empire by acquiring ____________________ and ____________________ in the Seven Years’ War.
8. On July 4, 1776, the Second Constitutional Congress approved a declaration of ____________________ written by Thomas Jefferson.
9. The ____________________, signed in 1783, recognized the independence of the American colonies.
10. The proposed Constitution of the United States created a ____________________ system in which power would be shared between the ____________________ government and the ____________________ governments.