Unit 5: Terms Flashcards
1
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Hacienda
A
A Spanish owned plantation that used native or slave labor
2
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Encomienda
A
The right to organize unpaid labor by the earliest Spanish colonists in Latin America
3
Q
Viceroys(Peninsulares)
A
Colonial officers born in Spain and/or governor who ruled as representatives of a monarch
4
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Creoles
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Descendant of Europeans born in Latin America
5
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Mestizo
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People of European and Native American descent
6
Q
Toussaint L’Overture
A
Former slave who led enslaved Africans in a violent rebellion against the French during the 1790s
7
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Father Miguel Hidalgo
A
- began the independence movement in Mexico
- captured by Spanish and executed for treason
8
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President James Monroe
A
Issues the Monroe Doctrine
