Social Studies Chapter 4 Lesson 3

Social Studies Chapter 4 Lesson 3

Hernando de Soto

• He and about 700 men travel through modern-day Georgia looking for Confitachiqui, a rich city

• They meet a young Native American woman who they call, "the Lady of Cofitachiqui" and asks about the pearls she has

• The young woman takes them to a building with more pearls

• The soldiers demand that she help them find gold

• The young woman escapes

• Story told by a member of the expedition

The Search for Gold

Search for Gold

• One story was about the rich kingdom of Cibola, located far north of Mexico
• Esteban was an African sailor who had been enslaved
• He became the personal slave for conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in 1528 and traveled most of the SW region of United States

• They never found the kingdom

Multiple Choice

What were the Spaniards looking for?

• salt

• dollars

• gold

• pearls

Multiple Choice

Did Cibola exist?

• Yes

• No

Society in New Spain

• Society : a group of people forming a community

• Plantations: large farms with MANY workers

• Encomienda: grants

Society in New Spain

• Peninsulares : people who were born in Spain

• Creoles : people with Spanish background who were born in the Americas

• Mestizos : person with native and Spanish background

• Mulatto : person with African and Spanish background

• Native Americans and Africans held the lowest position in society

Multiple Choice

What is a society?

• a large farm

• a grant

• a group of people forming a community

Multiple Choice

Who held the highest position in this society?

• Mestizo

• Mulatto

• Peninsulares

• Native Americans

Open Ended

What do you think of the caste system?

Mission : a religious settlement where missionaries live and work.

Its purpose was to teach native peoples about Christianity

More Changes for Native Peoples

• Native peoples had to work without pay and did not always have enough to eat

• They could be beaten and forced to work long hours

• Missions were one type of encomiendas that were run by Roman Catholic missionaries

• native peoples had to give up their traditional ways of life and become Christians

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of a Mission?

• to be like James Bond

• to teach native peoples about Christianity

• to work in farms

• to become merchants

Bartolome de Las Casas spoke out against the mistreatment of native peoples under the care of the church

Persuaded Spain to pass laws in 1542 saying native peoples must be paid for their work (were never enforced and later rescinded.

Slavery in the Americas

• The Spanish first brought enslaved Africans to Hispaniola in 1512

• Enslaved Africans replaced native peoples, who were dying in large numbers from disease and overwork

• Las Casas first supported bringing Africans to New Spain - then wrote they should not be enslaved

• Enslavement became an important part of the Spanish colonial economy

• By 1574 = 12,000 enslaved Africans

Open Ended

Spain in the 1400-1500s were NOT doing well economically and were NOT powerful.

After their conquest and colonization of the Americas, how do you think that changed?