Colonial Society In Americas: The Formation Of Multicultural Societies

Question 1

Why did mestizo numbers grow so quickly within Spanish and Portuguese colonies?

Answer 1

• European migrants flooded into the western hemisphere

- more than 85% men, so the males got in relationships with natives

Question 2

Compare European marital arrangements (marriage) in:

colonial cities vs rural areas

Answer 2

COLONIAL CITIES:
-Spanish migrants married Spanish migrants and created European-style society
RURAL:
-Spanish men associated with native women to make mestizo society

Question 3

Describe the various multi-racial groups that emerged in Portuguese Brazil.

Answer 3

• There were less women migrating to Peru from Portugal so
• the men associated with more Africans and natives
• mestizos, zambos, mulattoes

Question 4

mestizo

Answer 4

Europeans and native

Question 5

Mulattoes

Answer 5

European and African

Question 6

Zambos

Answer 6

native and African

Question 7

illustrate and describe the social hierarchy of Iberian colonial society.

Answer 7

1) peninsulares (migrants born in Europe)
2) criollos/creoles (European born in America)
3) Mestizos –on the fringe of society to being very prominent
4) mulattoes, Zambos, other mixed
5) imported slaves and conquered people

Question 8

peninsulares

Answer 8

migrants born in europe

Question 9

criollos

Answer 9

creoles

-european born in america

Question 10

Why were there fewer mestizos (metis) in English and French colonies?

Answer 10

• european women were more more numerous among the French and especially the English
• colonists disdained the natives and discouraged relationships, refusing to acknowledge mixed people

-French fur traders sometimes associated with native women to make métis (French mestizos)

Question 11

Describe the English colonial attitude towards non-Europeans.

Answer 11

• colonists disdained the natives and saw them as lazy heathens that didn’t recognize private property and didn’t exert themselves in farming
• racist to African slaves and tried to maintain sharp boundaries

Question 12

How were the English settlers altered as a result of interaction with natives?

Answer 12

• they had to interact with the natives and africans and
• readily borrowed culture
• american plants and animals
• moccasin and deerskin clothes
• abandoned european style military of loud drums and colors
• African food and rice cultivation