Indigenous Populations
The name of the society that Cortés defeated in Mexico
What is the Aztec Empire?
A Spaniard born in Spain
What is a peninsular?
The name given to reforms issued in the Spanish Empire after the takeover of a new royal family.
The Bourbon Reforms
Name at least one of the type of colonies established in British America
What is proprietary, royal, charter?
This idea promoted westward expansion based on the perceived superiority of the United States.
What is manifest destiny?
British colonists favored this perspective when thinking about incorporating indigenous populations into their settlements.
The transatlantic voyage experienced by enslaved African captives as they were taken to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
This British Act demanded that colonists purchase special paper to demonstrate that the tax had been paid.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group of people were primarily in charge in the Spanish colonies, causing this other group of people to be upset.
Who is peninsulars and creoles
Extreme instability, more than 50 presidencies
This system was the first major labor system in Spanish America and gave conquistadors indigenous laborers to work as they saw fit
What is the encomienda system?
The two primary labor systems used in British America that resulted in the importation of laborers.
What is indentured servitude and slavery?
During the Boston Tea Party, rebels dressed up as this group.
British colonial governments were divided into (usually) two parts. On one hand, there was an appointed governor. On the other, there was this legislative body primarily inhabited by colonists.
What are assemblies?
This person launched a coup against the liberal Mexican government in 1857.
General Félix Zuloaga
What is the Mystic Massacre?
Racial dynamics in the Spanish Empire were organized into this.
Caste hierarchy
Who is Miguel Hidalgo, José María Morelos, Agustín de Iturbide?
Following independence, the newly formed United States relied on what kind of national government?
A loosely organized federation with limited national government
The French invaded Mexico primarily for this reason.
The new liberal government could not and would not pay back loans taken out by Zuloaga
Identify one of the primary ways how Christianization efforts differed between Spanish and British North America
Differing efforts, differing success rates, differing support, differing priorities to convert
Who were the real audiences of casta paintings and how does that impact our understanding of the point of these portraits?
Elites in Europe, attempt to show control over diverse population
What is the key difference between the development of independence efforts in the British versus the Spanish colonies?
Actual want for independence/self governance versus perfect storm, attempt to take power for themselves
What principles did the American and Mexican constitutions share? How did they differ?
Sovereignty, power with states, return of fugitives, representative power
Role of religion, number of constituents per rep
How are the Mexican Civil War and the rising conflicts in the United States related?
Rising conflicts impact US attempts to assist against French invasion