Ch 19 The Diversity of American Colonial Societies Flashcards

132246376	Columbian Exchange	The transfer of peoples, animals, plants, and diseases between the new and old worlds.	0
132246377	Council of the Indies	was formed in 1524 to govern the Americas from Spain. Wrote laws, selected officials and judged legal cases.	1
132246378	Bartolomé de Las Casas	First bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor.	2
132246379	Potosí	Located in Bolivia (but now Peru), one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. (p. 479)	3
132246380	economienda	In the Spanish colonies in the1540s, Amerindian people were divided among sellers and were forced to provide them with labor or with textiles, food, or other goods.	4
132246381	creoles	Whites born in America to European Parents	5
132246382	mestizo	mixed European (Creole) and Amerindian ancestry	6
132246383	mulatto	a person of mixed african and european ancestry	7
132246384	indentured servant	Worker who exchanged labor for help getting started in America	8
132246385	House of Burgesses	1660, Colonial Government was administered by a Crown-Appointed governor and his council, as well as by representatives of town meetings	9
132246386	Pilgrims	Settlers who wished to break completely with the Church of England	10
132246387	Puritans	wished to purify the Church of England, not break with it.	11
132246388	Iroquois Confederacy	An alliance among the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, asnd Seneca Indian Tribes resulting in alliances and trade relationships that gave them access to the rich fur trade of Canada.	12
132246389	New France	Samuel de Champlain founded a New Colony at Quebec on St Lawrence River in 1608.	13
132246390	Courers de Bois	"Runners of the Woods"	14
132246391	Tupac Amaru II	Was formerly Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, but had renamed himself Tupac Amaru II. His dream of empire included reviving the Incan Empire and modeling it along European lines and keeping in place the Catholic Church. He claimed to be adjusting what already exists.	15