Chapter 8

Question 1

Latin America

Answer 1

Another name for the regions of South America in Central America

Question 2

Line of Demarcation

Answer 2

Line drawn on the map by the Pope that was supposed to determine where Spain and Portugal could claim land 

Question 3

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 3

Treaty between the Allies and Germany that contained harsh demands and blamed Germany for World War I

Question 4

Creoles

Answer 4

People of pure Spanish or Portuguese, dissent born in the Americas

Question 5

Mother Country

Answer 5

European country that practiced imperialism

Question 6

Exported

Answer 6

Sent out of the colonies

Question 7

Imported

Answer 7

Brought to the colonies

Question 8

donatario

Answer 8

A Portuguese noble that ruled in the New World; a hereditary privilege

Question 9

viceroy

Answer 9

Ruler of a Spanish colony, who represented the king of Spain

Question 10

Peninsulares

Answer 10

Spaniards born in Spain

Question 11

New Laws of 1542

Answer 11

Laws passed to protect the Indians and mestizos from some of the abuses they suffered

Question 12

Mestizos

Answer 12

A person with a Indian and Spanish parents

Question 13

Barrios

Answer 13

Neighborhoods of poor people in Latin American cities

Question 14

Hacienda

Answer 14

A large country estate in Latin America

Question 15

Old World

Answer 15

A term for Europe

Question 16

Jacques Cartier

Answer 16

French explorer sent by the king to find riches and a water route to China, discovered the St. Lawrence river

Question 17

Samuel De Champlain

Answer 17

French explorer who discovered two of the Great Lakes; also known as the father of New France

Question 18

John Smith

Answer 18

Strong English leader that turned the Jamestown settlement into a thriving colony

Question 19

Sir Thomas Dale

Answer 19

Strong English leader that turned the Jamestown settlement into a thriving colony

Question 20

Jamestown

Answer 20

An English colony in North America

Question 21

Cash crops

Answer 21

Crops that could be sold for cash or supplies

Question 22

Pilgrims

Answer 22

English people who came to the New World to escape persecution, to establish a place to bring up their children, and to advance missions

Question 23

Puritans

Answer 23

English people who settled the Massachusetts colony in order to establish a society based upon biblical principles

Question 24

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 24

Settlement of Puritans in the New World

Question 25

Established Church

Answer 25

A church recognized and supported by the colonies government

Question 26

United States of America

Answer 26

Nation that developed from the original 13 colonies

Question 27

War for Independence

Answer 27

Delivered the colonist in North America from English rule

Question 28

Constitution

Answer 28

The working document outlining the pattern of US government

Question 29

Simon Bolivar

Answer 29

Best known for his role in leading the Spanish colonies in their struggle for independence

Question 30

Jose de San Martin

Answer 30

Best known for his role in meeting the Spanish colonies in their struggle for independence

Question 31

Antonio Jose de Sucre

Answer 31

Fought alongside Bolivar for Venezuelan independence and then went to free Ecuador from Spanish dominion

Question 32

Gauchos

Answer 32

Cowboys of Argentina

Question 33

Pedro I

Answer 33

Crowned emperor of an independent Brazil

Question 34

Caudillos

Answer 34

South American leaders who established dictatorships