Social Hierachy
The "governor" of New Spain.
Who is the Viceroy?
The natural resources the Spaniards wanted from the Americas. (Name 2)
What are gold, silver, and brazilwood?
The main goal of the was to convert indigenous people to Catholicism and create Christian schools.
What are Catholic Missions?
The name given to the Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered territory in the Americas.
Who are the conquistadors
What is the correct order:
1. War for Independence from Spain
2. Mexican Revolution to overthrow President/Dictator Porfirio Diaz.
3. Spanish colonization of the Americas.
1. Spanish colonization of the Americas.
2. War for Independence from Spain
3.Mexican Revolution to overthrow President/Dictator Porfirio Diaz.
The children of peninsulares and indigenous peoples in New Spain.
Who were mextizos?
The trading of ideas, fruits, vegetables, other products, and people across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The leading Catholic order setting up missions in the Americas.
Who are the Jesuits?
The priest who spoke to the common person to rise up and overthrow the Spanish from New Spain.
Who was Father Miguel Hidalgo?
Developed on the outskirts of the civilization. They raised cattle and horses to sell to the towns people, missions and the presidios.
What were ranchos?
Born of peninsularers.
Who were Creoles?
An economic policy that promotes strengthening a nation by expanding its trade.
What is mercantilism?
The division of Central and South American by Pope
Alexander VI between the Spanish and Portuguese.
What was the Line of Demarcation.
Believed in land reform where poor farmers could have their own farms. He fought in the Mexican Revolution and died in 1919.
Who was Emiliano Zapata?
Built with the purpose of protecting the missions from the Natives. Many times the soldiers had conflicts with the friars.
What were presidios?
Moved from Spain to New Spain.
Who were peninsulares?
An economic system in which business is privately owned and operated for profit.
What is capitalism?
Official European legal document dividing Central and South America between the Spanish and Portuguese.
Fought in the Mexican Revolution. He had the largest and best army to rise up against the Mexican government.
Who was Pancho Villa?
An economic system of buying and selling goods from the Americas to Europe to Africa and back to the Americas.
What was the Triangle Trade?
The original peoples of what today is called Mexico.
Name 2.
Who are: indigenous peoples such as Aztecs, Mayas, Olmec and more?
The Catholic Church was at the central of these settlements.
What are Spanish Towns?
The emperor of France during the time Mexico fought for independence from Spain.
Who was Napoleon?
Land that used to be part of Mexico and is now located within the United States.
What are California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Nevada?