History of Latin America (SS6H1a)

What was one of the reasons for European expansion into the New World?

• They wanted gold to help improve their GDP.

• They wanted to colonize land to defeat Napoleon.

• Cheap and steadily available labor force to work in Sugar Cane plantations and haciendas.

• Europeans wanted to convert indigenous populations into Christians.

What decimated the indigenous populations in South America during the European expansion to the New World?

• Too many indigenous populations were being sold into slavery.

• The indigenous populations did not have immunities to European diseases such as small pox.

• The indigenous populations were forced to fight in the French and Indian war.

• The indigenous populations had more deaths than births.

The importation of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as the what?

• Columbian Exchange

• Portuguese Revolution

• Spanish Revolution

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

Why did the Spanish and Portuguese bring black Africans to the Americans?

• The indigenous populations of Latin America were decimated (destroyed) due to disease.

• Their religion required them to do convert all immigrants.

• It was much faster to acquire black Africans than indigenous people.

• They wanted to increase the Standard of living of black Africans.

What still prevails today in South American countries such as Cuba and Brazil from the African Slave trade?

• Slavery still exists in many parts of South and Central America today.

• Many of the haciendas that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today.

• Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans which resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America today.

• Many of the descendants from the black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines in Brazil.