Exam2 Flashcards
Latin American History Exam II
Multiple Choice: Please know the “who
how
following:
-Bartolom de las Casas- Destruction of the Indies and “The Only Method of
Converting the Indians”
-Encomienda System
-Hatuey and the Spanish Conquest of Cuba- thought on Christian Heaven
-las Casas on conversion by force
-Columbian Exchange
-Plantations in Latin America before 1650s- cash crop
-Switch to sugarcane cultivation- dangerous
much higher demand for labor
decline in indentured European volunteers
rise in sugar prices- creates a
cycle of the Atlantic Slave Trade
-Demand for labor highest in Sugar Plantations in Guadeloupe
Martinique
and particularly Barbados
-West Indian society in the 18th C.
-Slaves’ lives- task system
gangs
punishments for not making quotas
slavedrivers
continues Slave trade cycle
always rebelled in some form
-French Colony of Saint Domingue- Haitian Revolution
Toussaint
L’Ouverture
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
-French Revolution- changing government’s role in the Haitian Revolution
-Roots of Revolution in 19th C.- wealthy colonial resident’s frustrations
role
of the Napoleonic Wars
-Simon Bolivar- leader of Venezuelan Revolutionaries
grand plan
-Revolution in Buenos Aires- fate of the United Provinces of the Rio de la
Plata
-Mexico- important Spanish Colony
Rebellion under Miguel Hidalgo
military revolt in Spain- Iturbide declares Independence
himself Emperor
1823 Mexican military overthrow Iturbide
found Republic of Mexico
-Brazil- Pedro I
liberal policies- independent Constitutional Monarchy
loses popularity; Pedro II rules for nearly 60 years
-Latin America’s trouble with constitutionality and representative
government- lack of experience
role of the Catholic Church
military
powerful individual leaders
