Topic 4 Test WH

Question 1

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 1

Treaty that allowed portugal to make a colony in America

Question 2

Viceroy

Answer 2

a rep for the spanish king in America

Question 3

Encomienda

Answer 3

A land granted by a spanish king to colonists in America forced natives to be slaves to spanish

Question 4

Bartolome de Las Casas

Answer 4

a spanish missionary who got rid of the encomienda system and suggested using African slaves

Question 5

Peon

Answer 5

Spanish farmer in “New World”

Question 6

Peninsular

Answer 6

a person of spanish descent in America

Question 7

Creole

Answer 7

A person of Spanish parents born “New Spain”

Question 8

Mestizo

Answer 8

A person with Spanish and Native parents

Question 9

Mulatto

Answer 9

A person with Spanish and African parents.

Question 10

Olaudah Equiano

Answer 10

was a slave in the middle passage.

Question 11

Triangular Trade

Answer 11

a system of trading one country’s exports in exchange for another.

Question 12

Middle Passage

Answer 12

“slave ship”

Question 13

Diseases on Slave Ships

Answer 13

Dysentery and smallpox