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New Spain () was a colonial territory of the Spanish Empire in the New World north of the Isthmus of Panama. It was established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521, and following additional conquests, it was made a viceroyalty (Spanish: "virreinato") in 1535. The first of four viceroyalties Spain created in the Americas, it comprised Mexico, Central America, much of the Southwestern and Central United States, and Spanish Florida as well as the Philippines, Guam, Mariana and Caroline Islands.

After 1535 the colony was governed by the Viceroy of New Spain, an appointed minister of the King of Spain, who ruled as monarch over the colony from its capital, Mexico City. New Spain lost parts of its territory to other European powers and independence, but the core area remained under Spanish control until 1821, when it achieved independence as the Mexican Empire when the latter dissolved, it became modern Mexico and Central America.

New Spain developed highly regional divisions, reflecting the impact of climate, topography, the presence or absence of dense indigenous populations, and the presence or absence of mineral resources. The areas of central and southern Mexico had dense indigenous populations with complex social, political, and economic organization. The northern area of Mexico, a region of nomadic and semi-nomadic indigenous populations, was not generally conducive to dense settlements, but the discovery of silver in Zacatecas in the 1540s drew settlement there to exploit the mines. Silver mining not only became the engine of the economy of New Spain, but vastly enriched Spain and transformed the global economy. New Spain was the New World terminus of the Philippine trade, making the viceroyalty a vital link between Spain's New World empire and its Asian empire.

1. Did the northern area of Mexico have a small population?
2. Did the Southern and central area of Mexico have a complex social and economic
3. Did the central and southern areas of Mexico have a small population?
4. Did the Northern area of Mexico have many cities and settlements?
5. What mineral was found there?
6. When?
7. Where specifically?
8. Who controlled New Spain beginning in 1521?
9. How many centuries did they retain control for?
10. Was the land in New Spain similar throughout the whole area?
11. What person appointed the Viceroy of New Spain in 1535?
12. Where did the Viceroy of New Spain rule from?
13. Was this the capital?
14. The region that became the Mexican empire in 1821, became what when it was later dissolved?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. yes
2. yes
3. no
4. no
5. silver
6. in the 1540s
7. Zacatecas
8. the Spanish
9. three
10. no
11. the King of Spain
12. Mexico City
13. yes
14. Mexico and Central America

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CHAPTER III.

THE END OF THE BALL.

THE priest's long journey did not appear to have fatigued him. He was as cheerful and as polite as ever--and so paternally attentive to Stella that it was quite impossible for her to pass him with a formal bow.

"I have come all the way from Devonshire," he said. "The train has been behind time as usual, and I am one of the late arrivals in consequence. I miss some familiar faces at this delightful party. Mr. Romayne, for instance. Perhaps he is not one of the guests?"

"Oh, yes."

"Has he gone away?"

"Not that I know of."

The tone of her replies warned Father Benwell to let Romayne be. He tried another name.

"And Arthur Penrose?" he inquired next.

"I think Mr. Penrose has left us."

As she answered she looked toward Lady Loring. The hostess was the center of a circle of ladies and gentlemen. Before she was at liberty, Father Benwell might take his departure. Stella resolved to make the attempt for herself which she had asked Lady Loring to make for her. It was better to try, and to be defeated, than not to try at all.

"I asked Mr. Penrose what part of Devonshire you were visiting," she resumed, assuming her more gracious manner. "I know something myself of the north coast, especially the neighborhood of Clovelly."

Not the faintest change passed over the priest's face; his fatherly smile had never been in a better state of preservation.

1. Where has the traveler come from?
2. Who is he?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Devonshire
2. Father Benwell

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, calling his indictment politically motivated, vowed Saturday to fight charges he abused his power by trying to pressure a district attorney to resign.

"This farce of a prosecution will be revealed for what it is, and those responsible will be held accountable," Perry said at a news conference in Austin, the capital.

A grand jury in Travis County indicted Perry, a Republican, on two felony counts stemming from his threat to veto funding for a statewide public integrity unit run by Travis Country District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, unless she stepped down, according to the special prosecutor in the case, Michael McCrum.

The case centers on Perry's June 2013 veto of the $7.5 million budget for the unit run by Lehmberg, after she refused his demand to resign following her drunken driving arrest and conviction.

Perry faces accusations of coercion of a public servant and abuse of his official capacity in connection with the threat and veto.

Right to veto?

According to McCrum, the indictment alleges that the circumstances around Perry's veto threat amounted to a misuse of state money earmarked by the Legislature to fund the public integrity unit in Travis County run by Lehmberg.

The second charge alleges that he improperly used the veto threat to get her to resign following her arrest on a drunk driving charge. She stayed in office.

But the governor said under the state constitution he has the discretionary right to veto items in the state budget.

"I exercised this discretion," he said.

1. What day did the GOV. Rick Perry vow to fight charges of him abusing his power?
2. When did the case center around Perry's veto?
3. What did the governor said under state constitution?
4. What does he face accusations of?
5. Who did he threaten to get to resign?
6. What did he say to the news in Austin?
7. Did he win his case?
8. Did Rosemary resign her post?
9. How much was the budget he vetoed?
10. How many felony counts does he have against him?
11. Why was he trying to get her to resign?
12. Where was the grand jury at?
13. Who was the special prosecutor?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Saturday
2. June 2013
3. he has the discretionary right to veto items in the state budget.
4. coercion of a public servant and abuse of his official capacity
5. Rosemary Lehmberg
6. "This farce of a prosecution will be revealed for what it is, and those responsible will be held accountable"
7. no
8. no
9. $7.5 million
10. Two
11. drunken driving arrest and conviction
12. Travis County
13. unknown