Spanish & Portuguese Colonies in the Americas

Question 1

Encomienda

Answer 1

right the Spanish government granted to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans

Question 2

Bartolomé DE las Casas

Answer 2

A bold priest who condemned the evils of the encomienda.

Question 3

Peon

Answer 3

worker forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt

Question 4

Peninsulares

Answer 4

member of the highest class in Spain’s colonies in the Americas

Question 5

Creoles

Answer 5

person in Spain’s colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendent of Spanish settlers

Question 6

Mestizo

Answer 6

person in Spain’s colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent

Question 7

Mulatto

Answer 7

in Spain’s colonies in the Americas, person who was of African and European descent

Question 8

Purdah

Answer 8

isolation of women in separate quarters

Question 9

Viceroy

Answer 9

representative who ruled one of Spain’s provinces in the Americas in the king’s name; one who governed in India in the name of the British monarch