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Question 0

Edict

Answer 0

AN official order from a government or a person with authority.

Question 1

Despotic

Answer 1

having total power. Despotic rules are often harsh and abusive.

Question 2

Holy Alliance

Answer 2

A group of European rulers who signed a pact in 1815 to defend Christianity and
the absolute monarchy.

Question 3

Suffrage

Answer 3

The right to vote in elections.

Question 4

Inquisition

Answer 4

An organization of the Roman Catholic church during the middle ages that.persecuted and punished people who did not accept its beliefs and practices.

Question 5

Regent

Answer 5

A person who reigns in place of a monarch who is too young, sick, disabled, or absent.

Question 6

Triennium

Answer 6

A 3-year term or period.

Question 7

• ____returned to power in ____, after being imprisoned by Napoleon. He restored the ____ instead of keeping a constitutional monarchy. There was a strong opposition, especially from the colonies (being ____ and ____)

Answer 7

Ferdinand VII 
1814
Absolute monarchy
Cuba 
Puerto Rico

Question 8

Export ____and ____kept the colonial system alive.

Answer 8

agriculture

slavery

Question 9

____was forced to restore the Constitution of 1812.

Answer 9

King Ferdinand

Question 10

Restoring the Constitution of 1812 led to changes for Puerto Rico:

Answer 10

◦ Direct participation in the Spanish Parliament
◦ Possibility of electing a provincial council
◦ Possibility of electing municipal officials
◦ Separation of civil and military government.

Question 11

The constitution of 1812 also instituted for men, ____ and ____.

Answer 11

free press

free trade

Question 12

free press and free trade called for:

Answer 12

the distribution of land
abolished the Inquisition tribunal
included Puerto Rico and Cuba as provinces of Spain

Question 13

A second constitutional period began for Spain. ____ During this
period the King did not have ____. His power was limited by the ____ =____.

Answer 13

Liberal Triennium (1820-1823)
absolute authority
constitutional parliament
Constitutional Monarchy.

Question 14

In Puerto Rico the governor (aka ____) had ____, ____, and ____ power.

Answer 14

captain general
political
military
judicial

Question 15

The governor had the ____ and would, sometimes, rule in ____ manner (not allowing
citizens to participate in ____).

Answer 15

highest authority
despotic
political decissions

Question 16

When the____ended the reforms in Puerto Rico died too.

Answer 16

Liberal Triennium

Question 17

became governor (1823-37)

Answer 17

Miguel de la Torre

Question 18

They called his regime “quincenario” (lasted ____), but also the Three D’s:

Answer 18

15 years
Dancing
Drinking,
Dice

Question 19

Miguel de la Torres theory was:

Answer 19

“A nation that revels does not rebel!”

Question 20

Miguel de la Torre: (what did the bastard do)

Answer 20

persecuted
imprisoned
exiled
executed separatists.

Question 21

Miguel reorganized the army and ordered small landowners to pay their ____or have their lands
____and handed over to ____.

Answer 21

debts
confiscated
merchants.

Question 22

Under his command ____ (the pirate) was captured and executed by a firing squad.

Answer 22

Roberto Cofresí

Question 23

During the first half of the 19
the century the island’s colonial officials were dealing with a labor
shortage. Why?

Answer 23

◦ Family farms
◦ sharecropping (tenant farming system)
◦ abundance of unclaimed or vacant lands

Question 24

The government responded by:

Answer 24

creating a system of paid labor.

Question 25

Soon, ____and ____owned most of the land, widening the gap between the ____ the ____.

Answer 25

planters
businessmen
wealthy
poor

Question 26

Abolitionist

Answer 26

person/group who want to stop slavery.

Question 27

Annexed

Answer 27

attached to or taken over by another country.

Question 28

Authoritarian

Answer 28

Requires people to obey laws or rules without the right to question or create them.

Question 29

Autocratic

Answer 29

ruling with absolute power.

Question 30

Dissent

Answer 30

to be against an official opinion or belief.

Question 31

Heterogeneous

Answer 31

Made up of parts that are different from each other.

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Indemnity

Answer 32

payment made to compensate for damage or loss

Question 33

Manumission

Answer 33

formal emancipation of a slave.

Question 34

Separatist

Answer 34

Person or group that wants to form a new country, religion, or political party.

Question 35

1865

Answer 35

Junta enformativa

◦ A council from the Spanish government to study

Question 36

Puerto Rico and Cuba presented economic and political reports demanding:

Answer 36

◦ less restricted trade
◦ lower tariffs
◦ free import of basic necessities, among other things…

Question 37

Puerto Rico and Cuba asked for:

Answer 37

to be stripped of the absolute power.

Question 38

To have representation on the Cortes in Spain and legal guarantee of individual rights.

Answer 38

◦ Free speech
◦ free press
◦ freedom of association
◦ right to petition
◦ access to public positions
◦ right to domestic

Question 39

The ____ petitioned for the immediate abolition of slavery. The ____ were against the abolition of slavery because it would hurt the island’s economy.

Answer 39

Puerto Rican

Cuban delegates

Question 40

Two weeks after the Cuban and Puertorican petitions were given in, the Junta made it clear that…

Answer 40

no changes would be made to the colonial system.

Question 41

1868 – Two rebellions erupted:

Answer 41

◦ Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)

◦ El Grito de Yara (Cuba)

Question 42

Slavery began to be undermined in Puerto Rico by:

Answer 42

◦ Resistance by slaves
◦ Efforts by educated liberals against the outdated slavery systems
◦ Political pressures against the Spanish government.

Question 43

In ____ slavery ended in the United States, only ____nations still practiced it:

Answer 43

1865 
three
Brazil
Cuba, 
Puerto Rico.

Question 44

1873

Answer 44

Abolition Law – it established a 3 year transition period towards true freedom.

Question 45

____ were paid a salary, but continued to work for the former owner or new employers.

Answer 45

Slaves