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La mescla
La mescla
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What percentage of the US total population did Latinos make up in 2012?
16.9%
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What was Spain’s vast empire based on?
the labor and exploitation of the Indian population
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What was the casta system?
A complicated system that delineated over 100 separate names for groups containing certain levels of Indian and African blood
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How did the caste system classify each person?
Based on the amount of non-European blood they had
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From were where slaves imported?
West Africa
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What percentage of the US total population did Latinos make up in 2013?
17%
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Who came to the New World in 1492?
Christopher Columbus under the Spanish
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Did the Spanish Monarchy exercise control over Spanish settlers? If so, how much of its profits did it reap?
Yes and they reaped 1/5 of all mining profits.
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What caused Spanish America to be a more racially mixed society?
There were only Spanish men in the New World
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Why were slaves imported?
The terrible destruction of the Indian population prompted the Spanish, in their never-ending search for cheap labor, to import slaves to work the sugar plantations in the Caribbean and the mines in South America.
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Who is America’s largest minority group?
LATINOS!
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Why was Spain’s colonization so controversial?
It's controversial because the Spanish came in search for riches and God. Instead they killed millions of innocent Native Americans.
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Who led the fight for independence? And what were they called?
Simón Bolívar and José de San Martin led the fight for independence. Those who fought for South American independence were called criollos, American-born descendants of Spaniards, and they continued to rule the many new nations of Spanish America for generations.
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Who stood at the lowest level of the casta system?
the more Indian blood a person had, the lower he or she stood on the ladder of social respectability
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What three groups combined to create a new Latin American culture?
The mixture of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and Africans in colonial Spanish America gave rise to a fascinating cultural brew
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What percentage of population growth did Latinos account for between 2000-2011?
more than half, 55.4%
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How were the Indians treated in relation to encomiendas?
The Indians were parceled out with the encomiendas - or the grants of land given to the Spanish who came to the New World.
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Why did the Spaniards begin to import African slaves? What did this create?
Due to natural attrition and harsh misrule, the population of native laborers soon became too small for the voracious Spanish, so they began to import African slaves to work in sugar plantations and silver mines. The introduction of African traditions to the Native American and mestizo cultures made for a social mixture richer than in almost any other part of the world.
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Did race play a huge role in rights in Latin America?
Yes. Mestizos were barred from various offices, they could not hold many jobs, and they were discriminated against in court. Spanish colonial America was ruled by a small group of pure-Spanish descendants, and the rest of the population had few rights.
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Was the problem of race different in Spanish America than other parts of the world?
Race was a prime ingredient in a unique cultural mixture that incorporated African, Indian and European elements, something that happened nowhere else in the world
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By 2041, what percentage of the US population are Latinos expected to make up?
Up to 30% of the US population
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What are conquistadores?
Soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who were at the service of the Spanish Empire
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What legacy did the Spanish leave in the New World?
The Spanish left a legacy of cruelty and exploitation in their wake, but they also managed to open the world and increase cultural exchanges to a level never before seen in human history.
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Does race still play a huge role in rights in Latin America?
Yes. This is still a problem in much of Latin America, where Independence in the nineteenth century replaced one ruling class with another. For instance, in Mexico, the ongoing Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas has much to do with the rights of indigenous and mestizo populations who feel they are underrepresented and face discrimination. In Bolivia, a similar story unfolded after the recent election of Evo Morales, an Indian, to the presidency. This is all to say that race played a huge role in colonial Latin America, and still does today.
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What was the downside of the mixing of the races?
It was the basis for racist divisions in society in which the color of one's skin and the perceived amount of non-European blood one had limited life's opportunities and brought about inequality and discrimination. The problem of race was different in Spanish America than in the United States, but it was no less troubling.