Chapter 8 Test Flashcards
Education thrived in __________ colonies
English
_________ __________ countries had more unrest after gaining independence than the United States did after its War for Independence.
South American
This as the final agreement that determined where Spain and Portugal could explore and colonize
Treaty of Tordesillas
Brazil was colonized by the _________
Portuguese
These were two important exports of colonial Latin America
Refined silver
Sugar
This was the mother country of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
England
Portugal is ________ than Brazil
larger
Ecuador is part of the _______ World
New
The Pilgrims separated from the ________ ___ _______
Church of England
Established churches within the colonies ______ ___________ by the colonies’ government
were recognized
__________ originated in Arabia and was later introduced to South America, where it became a major crop
Coffee
The ______ ______ ___ __________ promised protection for Indians as a result of Las Casas’s efforts to stop the ill-treatment of the Indians
New Laws of 1542
His strong leadership helped turn the Jamestown settlement into a thriving colony
Sir Thomas Dale
The Constitution was produced by a convention ________ the US War for Independence
after
This is the line that the pope used to differentiate the areas for Spanish and Portuguese exploration
Line of Demarcation
This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
This French explorer discovered three large lakes and became the Father of New France
Samual de Champlain
This Venezuelan knew many languages and liberated both Venezuela and Colombia
Simon Bolivar
This Portuguese nobleman once famously said, “Independence or death!”
Pedro I
This Argentine lever from a prominent family liberated Chile and then Peru
Jose de San Martin
Which nation colonized a majority of Latin America?
Spain
What caused discontentment in the Spanish colonies?
- control by the mother country
- teachings of English philosophers
- teachings of French philosophers
This Catholic order became rich and established industries until they were expelled from South America
Jesuits
This nation began buying slaves in Africa and taking them to Europe as early as 1441.
Portugal
The colonies of this country offered the most religious freedom
England
The colony where the Puritans settled in 1630
Massachusetts Bay Colony
English colonists were primarily __________, while the French were ________ ___________
Protestant; Roman Catholic
Most of the English colonists came under _______ ______ rather than government sponsorships as the French did
private investors
People with Indian and Spanish parents
Mestizos
Revolutionaries who overthrew weak governments
caudillos
Spanish rulers who answered to the Council of the Indies
viceroys
Full-blooded Spaniards or Portuguese born in the Americas
Creoles
Large country estates owned by the wealthy
haciendas
Spaniards born in Spain
peninsulares
Poor neighborhoods in colonial cities
barrios
Nobles that ruled Portuguese colonies
donatarios
Cowboys in Argentina
gauchos
