APWH P2: Africa & Americas

Match the following types of labor:

• works for specified amount of time or labor

• mita system

• Spanish settler enslaved native Americans on farms

• indentured servitude

• Inca system of labor for citizens, later used by Spanish.

• encomienda

• slave is property, can be bought and sold

• chattel slavery

Spanish-commissioned paintings that showed racial mixing of new world families were known as ___________ paintings.

• Peninsulares

• Creolles

• Vodoo

• Casta

Match the following classes of Spanish Americas:

• mulatto

• American born Europeans

• Creolles

• Spanish born europeans

• mestizo

• mixed African and European

• Peninsulares

• mixed native American and European

Desire for the colonies cash crops led to an increase in

• treaties between Europeans

• the slave trade

• urbanization

• desertification

What aspect of Spanish colonization did missionary Bartolome de Las Casas famously protest?

• the refusal of explorers to tithe on the wealth they discovered
• the lack of missionary zeal among the conquistadors
• the treatment of Native Americans as subhuman and expendable
• the focus of the Spanish Crown on Latin America while neglecting the Reconquista at home

The slave voyage to the Americas was referred to as the

• New World Passage
• Transatlantic Journey
• Middle Passage
• Atlantic Crossing

Sugar, rice, wheat, coffee, bananas, & grapes are examples of which of the following

• Ships

• cash crops

• Sails

• Mercantilism

The economic system that dominated European commerce and trade from the 1600s to the late 1700s. It was based on the idea that nations would gain a favorable balance of trade by exporting more than they imported.

• Capitalism

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Mercantilism

• Joint Stock Companies

This person's leadership represented the most successful resistance to colonial power in the area's history. This leader's resistance laid the groundwork for the ending of the trade of enslaved peoples.

• Tokugawa Sakoku

• Metacom/King Phillip

• Queen Nanny

• Ana Nzinga

The Spanish Empire adopted this system to classify all of the Americas' various races and racial combinations, as well as where Spaniards were born.

• Mit'a

• Encomienda

• Casta

• Hacienda