Test Review And Stuff Flashcards
Edict
AN official order from a government or a person with authority.
Despotic
having total power. Despotic rules are often harsh and abusive.
Holy Alliance
A group of European rulers who signed a pact in 1815 to defend Christianity and
the absolute monarchy.
Suffrage
The right to vote in elections.
Inquisition
An organization of the Roman Catholic church during the middle ages that.persecuted and punished people who did not accept its beliefs and practices.
Regent
A person who reigns in place of a monarch who is too young, sick, disabled, or absent.
Triennium
A 3-year term or period.
• ____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 ____)
Ferdinand VII 1814 Absolute monarchy Cuba Puerto Rico
Export ____and ____kept the colonial system alive.
agriculture
slavery
____was forced to restore the Constitution of 1812.
King Ferdinand
Restoring the Constitution of 1812 led to changes for Puerto Rico:
◦ Direct participation in the Spanish Parliament
◦ Possibility of electing a provincial council
◦ Possibility of electing municipal officials
◦ Separation of civil and military government.
The constitution of 1812 also instituted for men, ____ and ____.
free press
free trade
free press and free trade called for:
the distribution of land
abolished the Inquisition tribunal
included Puerto Rico and Cuba as provinces of Spain
A second constitutional period began for Spain. ____ During this
period the King did not have ____. His power was limited by the ____ =____.
Liberal Triennium (1820-1823)
absolute authority
constitutional parliament
Constitutional Monarchy.
In Puerto Rico the governor (aka ____) had ____, ____, and ____ power.
captain general
political
military
judicial
The governor had the ____ and would, sometimes, rule in ____ manner (not allowing
citizens to participate in ____).
highest authority
despotic
political decissions
When the____ended the reforms in Puerto Rico died too.
Liberal Triennium
became governor (1823-37)
Miguel de la Torre
They called his regime “quincenario” (lasted ____), but also the Three D’s:
15 years
Dancing
Drinking,
Dice
Miguel de la Torres theory was:
“A nation that revels does not rebel!”
Miguel de la Torre: (what did the bastard do)
persecuted
imprisoned
exiled
executed separatists.
Miguel reorganized the army and ordered small landowners to pay their ____or have their lands
____and handed over to ____.
debts
confiscated
merchants.
Under his command ____ (the pirate) was captured and executed by a firing squad.
Roberto Cofresí
During the first half of the 19
the century the island’s colonial officials were dealing with a labor
shortage. Why?
◦ Family farms
◦ sharecropping (tenant farming system)
◦ abundance of unclaimed or vacant lands
The government responded by:
creating a system of paid labor.
Soon, ____and ____owned most of the land, widening the gap between the ____ the ____.
planters
businessmen
wealthy
poor
Abolitionist
person/group who want to stop slavery.
Annexed
attached to or taken over by another country.
Authoritarian
Requires people to obey laws or rules without the right to question or create them.
Autocratic
ruling with absolute power.
Dissent
to be against an official opinion or belief.
Heterogeneous
Made up of parts that are different from each other.
Indemnity
payment made to compensate for damage or loss
Manumission
formal emancipation of a slave.
Separatist
Person or group that wants to form a new country, religion, or political party.
1865
Junta enformativa
◦ A council from the Spanish government to study
Puerto Rico and Cuba presented economic and political reports demanding:
◦ less restricted trade
◦ lower tariffs
◦ free import of basic necessities, among other things…
Puerto Rico and Cuba asked for:
to be stripped of the absolute power.
To have representation on the Cortes in Spain and legal guarantee of individual rights.
◦ Free speech ◦ free press ◦ freedom of association ◦ right to petition ◦ access to public positions ◦ right to domestic
The ____ petitioned for the immediate abolition of slavery. The ____ were against the abolition of slavery because it would hurt the island’s economy.
Puerto Rican
Cuban delegates
Two weeks after the Cuban and Puertorican petitions were given in, the Junta made it clear that…
no changes would be made to the colonial system.
1868 – Two rebellions erupted:
◦ Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)
◦ El Grito de Yara (Cuba)
Slavery began to be undermined in Puerto Rico by:
◦ Resistance by slaves
◦ Efforts by educated liberals against the outdated slavery systems
◦ Political pressures against the Spanish government.
In ____ slavery ended in the United States, only ____nations still practiced it:
1865 three Brazil Cuba, Puerto Rico.
1873
Abolition Law – it established a 3 year transition period towards true freedom.
____ were paid a salary, but continued to work for the former owner or new employers.
Slaves
