Chapter 18 Flashcards
____- ______
-a council from the ____ government to study possible ____ for the colonies.
1865-Junta Informativa; spanish; reforms
____ and ____ presented _____ and _____ reports demaning.
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*
*
-They asked for the governor to be stripped of the _____ _____.
Puerto Rico; Cuba: economic;political
- less restricted trade
- lower tariffs
- free import of basic necessities among other things
-absolute;power.
To have representation on the Cortes in Spain and legal guarantee of individual right:
* * * * * *
- free speech
- free press
- freedom of association
- right to petition
- access to public positions
- right to domestic privacy
The Puerto Rican delegates petitioned for the immediate___ of ____. The _____ delegates were against the _____ of _____ because it would hurt the island’s _____.
abolition; slavery; cuban; abolition; slavery; economy
____ ____ later the ____ made it clear _ changes would be made to _____ _____
Two; weeks; Junta; NO; colonial; system
____-Two rebellions erupted:
- 1868
- Grito de Lares (P.R)
- Grito de Yara (Cuba)
Slavery began to be undermined in P.R. by:
1)
2)
3)
1) Resistance of slaves
2) Efforts by educated liberals against the outdated slavery system.
3) Political pressures against the Spanish government.
In ___ slavery ended in the US only three nations still practiced it:
1865
Brazil,Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
____-_____ - it established a 3 year transition toward true freedom.
1873;Abolition Law
They were ___ a ___, but continued to work for the ____ ____ or ____ ____.
paid;salary;former;owners; new;employers
person/ group who wants to stop slavery
aboitionist
attached to or be taken over by another country
annexed
requires people to obey laws or rules without the right to question or create them
authoritarian
ruling with absolute power
autocratic
to be against an official opinion or belief
dissent
