Latin America
People who came to the Americas from Spain. They held all of the political power in the Latin American colonies.
Who were the peninsulares?
The other name for the Pilgrims.
What are the Sepratists?
The founding document of the United States.
What is the US Constitution?
The first successful English colony created in 1607.
What was Jamestown?
A person appointed by the king to serve in his place.
What is a viceroy?
The line drawn by the pope in 1493 that divided the world between Spain and Portugal for conquest.
What was the Line of Demarcation?
The first English colony created in the New World in 1587. The colony failed and the people disappeared.
What was Roanoke?
This group of Spanish people were not given any political power which led them to wanting revolution.
Who were the Creoles?
This group was treated poorly and thought of as inferior by the Spanish.
Who were the Native Americas?
When a country sells items from inside their country and take the out.
What is an export?
People brought to the Latin American colonies to replace the dying Native Americans for slave labor.
Who were the African slaves?
A mythical waterway believed to go to China. Many French and English explorers were sent to find it but never did.
What was the Northwest Passage?
The two men who are seen as heroes of Latin American independence.
Who were Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin?
This group of 12 Portuguese nobles ruled over all of Portugal's colonial land.
Who were the Donatarios?
When a country purchases items from outside their country and brings them in.
What is an import?
The agreement between Spain and Portugal to move the Line of Demarcation 600 miles to the west. This gave Portugal control of Brazil.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This colony was created by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What was Plymouth colony?
Which Latin American country received its independence without violence?
What is Brazil?
This English group of colonists were known for wanting to purify society to be more Biblical. They created the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Who were the Puritans?
The idea that a ruler has absolute power and authority.
What is absolutism?
A person who was born to one parent of Spanish descent and another who was Native American.
What is a Mestizo?
Famously known as the "Father of New France".
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
The first emperor of independent Brazil.
Who was Emperor Pedro I?
Laws that attempted to provide better treatment for the Native Americans. It outlawed the enslaving of Native peoples but was overturned by the Spanish government.
What were the New Laws of 1542?
The large estates owned by the few wealthy men in Latin America.
What is a hacienda?