Colonial Labor Systems
This Spanish colonial labor system granted colonists the right to demand tribute and forced labor from indigenous peoples
What is the encomienda system?
This economic transformation involved the shift from feudalism to capitalism and the rise of global trade networks.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
This three-way trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the exchange of manufactured goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
What is triangular trade?
These Spanish colonial officials served as the king's representatives and governed large territories in the Americas.
Who are viceroys?
This 1675-1676 conflict, also known as King Philip's War, saw Native American leader Metacom fight against English colonial expansion in New England.
What is Metacom's War?
These Spanish colonists who received grants of indigenous labor and tribute under the colonial system.
Who are encomenderos?
This economic phenomenon in 16th-century Europe was caused by the influx of precious metals from the Americas, leading to widespread inflation
What is the Price Revolution?
These exclusive trading rights granted by governments to specific companies or individuals limited competition in colonial markets
What are monopolies?
These high courts in Spanish America served both judicial and administrative functions in colonial governance
What are audiencias?
This 1680 uprising saw Pueblo peoples successfully drive Spanish colonizers out of New Mexico for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This large estate system in Spanish America combined agricultural production with indigenous and enslaved labor.
What is the hacienda system?
These business organizations allowed investors to pool resources and share risks while limiting individual financial liability
What are joint-stock companies?
This West African kingdom became wealthy and powerful through its participation in the Atlantic slave trade
What is Dahomey?
This syncretic religion developed in Cuba, blending Yoruba religious traditions with Catholic saints and practices.
What is Santería?
This massive 1773-1775 peasant rebellion in Russia was led by a Cossack who claimed to be the rightful tsar.
What is Pugachev's Rebellion?
This Andean labor system required indigenous communities to provide workers for silver mines, particularly at Potosí
What is the mit'a system?
This Dutch trading company, established in 1602, became one of the world's first multinational corporations and dominated Asian trade.
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?
This marriage practice, common in many African societies, allowed men to have multiple wives and helped build political alliances.
What is polygyny?
This Afro-Caribbean religion practiced in Haiti combines West African spiritual traditions with Catholic elements.
What is Vodun (or Voodoo)?
These conflicts involved escaped enslaved people who established independent communities and fought against colonial authorities in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.
What are the Maroon Wars?
This labor system developed in Brazil and other Portuguese colonies combined elements of indigenous slavery, African chattel slavery, and European indentured servitude to meet the demands of sugar
What is the planation system?
This metal mined predominately in the Americas set of a global inflation during the global price revolution.
What is silver?
What is the Omani-European rivalry?
What is chattel slavery?
This competition for control of Indian Ocean trade routes pitted Arab merchants against Portuguese, Dutch, and English traders
What is the Omani-European rivalry?
This 1676 uprising in colonial Virginia saw both enslaved Africans and indentured servants rebel against the colonial government, highlighting class tensions in early America.
What is Gloucester County Rebellion (or Bacon's Rebellion)?