Trade and Expansion
This was the deadliest disease that came to the Americas from Europe.
What is smallpox?
This became the richest and most powerful institution in the Spanish colonies.
What is the Catholic Church?
They were at the top of the social class structure and held the highest-ranking jobs in the Spanish colonies.
Who were the peninsulares?
The region that millions of slaves were taken from.
What is West Africa?
Latin American independence movements were mostly led by this class of colonial society.
Who were the Creoles?
This animal had the greatest impact on native peoples in the Americas.
What is the horse?
This labor system, set up by the Spaniards, gave land and the labor of indigenous people in the New World to explorers, conquistadors and military men.
What is the Encomienda System?
They were of pure Spanish heritage but born in the Americas.
Who were the Creoles, or Criollos?
Name given to the leg of the Triangular Trade that brought slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean and Latin America.
What is the Middle Passage?
These two global events inspired Latin American colonists to seek their own independence.
What are the American and French Revolution?
The Columbian Exchange led to the development of this economic system between the mother countries and the colonies.
What is mercantilism?
In 1542, these were enacted by the King of Spain to reform the Encomienda System and address the abuses and neglect against the indigenous population.
What were the "NEW LAWS"?
Someone of mixed indigenous and European descent.
What is a mestizo?
This was the life expectancy of male slaves in Brazil.
What is 23 years old?
Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave, led a successful rebellion and gained independence for this country.
What is Haiti?
The growth of this main export product in the Caribbean and South American colonies led to the need for more slave labor.
What is sugar?
This priest, a former encomendero, became the most ardent defender of the indigenous people in the early colonial period.
Who was Bartolomé de Las Casas?
This social group made up 50% of the total population of Colonial Society in Latin America.
Who are the indigenous or native peoples?
Slaves in some parts of Latin America were allowed to do these two things, which were not allowed for slaves in North America.
What is to marry and learn to read and write?
Known as "el Libertador" he was the most influential leader of the South American independence movements.
Who was Simón Bolívar?
This popular phrase has been used to explain the reason for the Spanish Empire's expansion in the Americas. (hint: 3 Gs)
What is Gold, Glory and God?
With the steep decline in the indigenous population due to disease, violence and starvation, this group became the main source of labor.
What are African slaves?
This term is the name for the rigid social structure that existed in the Spanish colonies.
What is the caste system?
The last two countries in Latin America to abolish slavery.
What are Cuba and Brazil?
In a bloodless revolution, he declared Brazil independent from Portugal and was later crowned Brazil's emperor.
Who was Pedro I?