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WS Ch. 8 Notecards

Quiz by Mr. Harrison

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  • Q1
    Spanish or Portuguese-speaking nations south of the U.S. (Central and South America)
    Latin America
    30s
  • Q2
    This was the line drawn by Pope Alexander VI that gave everything east of it to Portugal (Africa, Asia) and everything west of it to Spain (New World)
    Line of Demarcation
    30s
  • Q3
    moved the Line of Demarcation farther west to prevent Portuguese sailors from accidentally crossing into Spanish waters on their way around Africa; although no one knew it at the time, this treaty would also give Portugal claim to Brazil in South America
    Treaty of Tordesillas
    30s
  • Q4
    In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of full Spanish descent born in the New World; capable of great wealth but no political power under the colonial system
    Creoles
    30s
  • Q5
    The European country from which colonists had been sent from
    Mother Country
    30s
  • Q6
    send (goods or services) to another country for sale.
    exported
    30s
  • Q7
    To bring in goods from a foreign country for sale or use
    imported
    30s
  • Q8
    A Portuguese noble that ruled in the New World; a hereditary privilege
    Donatario
    30s
  • Q9
    Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the new world; a title only held by peninsulares
    Viceroy
    30s
  • Q10
    People living in the New World Spanish colonies but born in Spain; permitted to hold political offices
    Peninsulares
    30s
  • Q11
    Bartolome de Las Casas convinced the King of Spain to institute these laws, which ended American Indian slavery, ended forced Indian labor, and began the process of ending the encomienda systems.
    New Laws of 1542
    30s
  • Q12
    A person of mixed Native American and European (Spanish/Portuguese) ancestry
    Mestizos
    30s
  • Q13
    Poor neighborhoods in South American colonies; occupied by poor Spaniards and Mestizos
    barrios
    30s
  • Q14
    Large Spanish colonial estates usually owned by wealthy families but worked by many peasants
    Haciendas
    30s
  • Q15
    the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas
    Old World
    30s

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