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Chapter 1-Give Me Liberty Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Spanish Empire - answer✔Spains Empire in the Americas. One of the first to try and colonize
america.
Council of the Indies - answer✔Main body in Spain for Spanish administration.
viceroys - answer✔the governor of a country, province, or colony who rules as the representative
of the sovereign.
criollos/creoles - answer✔mix between Spanish and the people they colonized
peninsulares - answer✔Persons of Europian Birth that stood at the top of the social hierarchy
mestizos - answer✔Persons of a mixed origin/race. By 1600 a large percantage of the Urban
Population was this. Meaning that had some European, Some Native American.
Bartolome de las Casas - answer✔Dominican Priest that published an account of the decimation
of the American Population. His father was on Columbus 2nd voyage. Freed his slaves in 1514.
efforts lead to the creation of The New Laws
Chapter 1-Give Me Liberty Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Spanish Empire - answer✔Spains Empire in the Americas. One of the first to try and colonize
america.
Council of the Indies - answer✔Main body in Spain for Spanish administration.
viceroys - answer✔the governor of a country, province, or colony who rules as the representative
of the sovereign.
criollos/creoles - answer✔mix between Spanish and the people they colonized
peninsulares - answer✔Persons of Europian Birth that stood at the top of the social hierarchy
mestizos - answer✔Persons of a mixed origin/race. By 1600 a large percantage of the Urban
Population was this. Meaning that had some European, Some Native American.
Bartolome de las Casas - answer✔Dominican Priest that published an account of the decimation
of the American Population. His father was on Columbus 2nd voyage. Freed his slaves in 1514.
efforts lead to the creation of The New Laws
