After the discovery of the New World, Portugal and Spain signed this to avoid war over land.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
100
The name of the indigenous people of Haiti whose population was exterminated by brutal working conditions on sugar cane plantations.
What is the Arawak?
100
The class social structure in the colonies starting with the lowest class.
What is slaves, freed blacks and native americans, metizos, creoles, and peninsulares.
100
A major cause of independence movements in Latin America.
What are the American and French Revolutions?
100
Pizzaro lands in Peru, Treaty of Tordesillas, Slave Trade.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
The amount of area that Spain controlled in the New World by the 1500s.
What is from Oregon to Chile?
200
A Spanish settler and missionary who wrote the king of Spain to ask that Africans be used as slaves instead of Native Americans.
Who is De las Casas?
200
Three roles of the Catholic Church in early Spanish colonies.
What is to spread Christianity, build schools and hospitals, provide services to the poor.
200
The first country in Latin America to gain its independence from European control.
What is Haiti?
200
Slavery ends in Spanish colonies, cities have grown very large, De las Casas writes king of Spain.
What is De las Casas writes king of Spain?
300
Rulers sent from Spain to govern the two kingdoms shortly after colonization began.
What are viceroys?
300
The year slavery ended in Spanish colonies.
What is 1592?
300
The type of society in which men run the society, and their lineage is passed down.
What is a patriarchal society?
300
The Creole revolutionary whose army gained independence for Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile.
What is San Martin?
300
King of Portugal increases colonization, Cortes lands in Mexico, New Laws enacted.
What is Cortes lands in Mexico?
400
A system of trade between a colony and its mother country.
What is mercantilism?
400
The century in which the Atlantic Slave Trade was at its height.
What were the 1700s, or 18th century?
400
A typical city plan in the early colonies.
What is a plaza in the middle with a government building, church, school, etc. The wealthy would live close to the plaza while the middle class and poor would live on the outskirts of the plaza or on haciendas?
400
The year no Latin American country was controlled by Spain.
What is 1825?
400
Haiti gains independence, Slave Trade ends in Latin America, height of slave trade.
What is Haiti gains independence?
500
Three cash crops cultivated on haciendas by early Spanish colonists to trade with Spain.
What are bananas, sugar cane, and coffee?
500
The percent of slaves that went to America and Brazil.
What are 6 and 40 percent?
500
The type of dwelling made from mud and had straw, or thatched, roofs.
What is adobe?
500
The two leaders of Mexico's independence movement.
Who are Miguel Hidalgo, and Jose Moreles?
500
Creole unrest in colonies spark independence movements, height of the slave trade.