Unit 4 Vocab Quiz Version C

The social structure that developed in Spanish America that divided people into groups based on racial heritage and skin color was called ____________.

• Maroon societies

• Chattel slavery

• Manorialism

• The Casta system

Residents in colonial Spanish America who were born in Spain and enjoyed more prestigious social positions were called ___________.

• Peninsulares

• Demographics

• Viceroys

• Hacienda

What was the three-masted sailing vessel created by the Portuguese that allowed them to sail into the wind?

• Fluyt

• Caravel

• Junk

• Triangular trade

What was the trans-Atlantic trade system that tied Western Africa, the Americas, and Europe together?

• Peninsulares

• Triangular trade

• Great Dying

• Mercantilism

What was the forced labor system granted to Spanish colonists by the king that allowed them to exact labor from indigenous populations in the Americas?

• Feudalism

• Mercantilism

• Viceroyalties

• Encomienda

Match the term with the definition

• viceroy

• labor system where individuals are considered property and are bought and sold as such

• indentured servitude

• Spaniards born in the Americas that resented the pretensions to superiority of those born in Spain

• creole

• form of labor in British North America where people sold their labor for a number of years for passage to the New World

• chattel slavery

• mixed race populations between Spanish and Native Americans

• mestizo

• those who governed Spanish colonies in the Americas on behalf of the monarch

Define joint stock company

11. Define Great Dying

Define Transatlantic slave trade

Define Treaty of Tordesillas