Chapter 17 Flashcards
Having total power.
Despotic
- Despotic rulers are often harsh and abusive.
An official order from the government or a person with authority.
Edict
A group of European rulers who signed a pact in 1815 to defend Christianity and the absolute monarchy.
Holy Alliance
The right to vote in elections.
Suffrage
An organization of the Roman Catholic Church during the middle ages that persecuted and punished people who did not accept its belief and practices.
Inquisition
A person who reigns in place of a monarch who is too young, sick, disabled, or absent.
Regent
A 3-year term or period.
Triennium
_____ returned to ___in ____,after being _____ by _____
Ferdinard VII; power; 1814; imprisoned; Napoleon
He restored the _____ _____ instead of keeping a _______ ______, there was a strong opposition, especially from the colonies- ____ & ____
Absolute Monarch; Constitutional Monarchy; Cuba; Puerto Rico
Export ____ and ____ kept the _____ _____ alive.
Agriculture; Slavery; colonial; system
King _____ was ____ to ______ the ______ of ____
Ferdinard; forced; restore; Constitution; 1812
Restoring the Constitution of 1812 led to changes for P.R.
It called for the distribution of ____, _____ the _____ _____, and included ____ & _____ as province of ____
1) Direct participation in the Spanish Parliament
2) Possibility of electing a provincial council
3) Possibility of electing municipal officials
4) Separation of civil and military government
- It also instituted for men, free press, and free speech.
-Land;abolished; Inquisition; tribunal;P.R.; Cuba; Spain
A second ____ _____ began for ______.
+Liberal Triennium ____.During this period the ____ did not have _____ _____.
-His ____ was ____ by the _____ and ______.
constitutional; period; (1820-1823); Spain king; absolute; authority
-power; limited; constitution; parliament
=Constitutional Monarchy
In ____ _____ the governor____ had ____, ____, and _____ ______.
He had the _____ ______ and would, sometimes, rule in a ____ manner (not allowing citizens to participate in political decisions.
Puerto Rico; (a.k.a. Capitan General); political; military; judicial; power.
-highest; authority; despotic
When the _____ _____ ended the reforms in P.R. did too.
Liberal Triennium
______ became governor_____. They called his regime ______ (____) but also the three___ (______, _____,and _____).
His theory was: “A ____ that ____ (____) does not ___.
However, he also _____, ______, _____, and_____ _____.
He______ the ____and ____ small ____ to pay their _____ or have their _____ ______ and ______ over to _____.
Under his _____ ______ ______ (___ ____) was ______ and _____ by a ____ ____,
Miguel de la Torre; (1823-1837); quincenario; 15 years; D’s; (Dancing, drinking, and dice)
- nation; revels;(parties); rebel.
- persecuted; imprisoned;exiled; executed; separatist.
- reorganized, army, ordered, landowners, debts, lands, confiscated,handed, merchants.
- command; Roberto Cofresi; (the pirate); captured; executed; firing; squad.
During the ____ ____ of the ____ ____ the islands ____ _____ were dealing with _____ _____.
Why?
1)
2)
3)
first;half;19th;century; colonial; official; labor; shortage.
1) Family Farm
2) Sharecropping (tenant farming system)
3) Abundance of unclaimed or vacant lands.
The ____ responded by _____ a ____ of ____ _____.
Soon, _____ and ____ owned most of the land, widening the gap between the ______ and the _____.
government; creating; system; paid; labor
-planters; businessmen; wealthy; poor.
