Question

Rulers of Spanish territories in the New World were known as:

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Viceroys

Explanation:

A viceroy is a person who rules a country or province as the representative of his sovereign or king and who is empowered to act in the sovereign’s name. Viceroy (virrey) was the title given to the primary governors of Spain's American provinces, just as to the governors of the "kingdoms" (reinos) of peninsular Spain appropriate (e.g., Aragon, Valencia).  

The forces of the viceroys were liable to different restrictions: other significant pilgrim authorities were additionally crown-named and could foil them by managing Madrid. In addition, the house government's moment guidelines on each part of provincial organization (however they were regularly overlooked) would in general permit minimal optional power. The audiencia, a court that mutual the emissary's regulatory obligations, frequently utilized its capacity to block him. The emissary's august compensation should forestall defilement, and business dealings were illegal to him. Before setting out his office he was required to answer to the ruler the key deeds and occasions of his organization, which was additionally exposed to a judicial review (residencia).

Answer 2

B, Viceroys. They run a colony in the name of a and as representative of the Monarch.