The Coming of the Europeans pt.2 Flashcards
Reasons why Columbus’s proposal to enslave The Indigenous peoples was rejected by Queen Isabella and spanish merchants
they said that too many naked enslaved Caribbean people would die when the ship crossed the cold northern Atlantic Ocean. This would make the trade and the voyage uneconomical.
The farming sector of Spain was not suffering from a labor shortage . So imported enslaved Caribbean labor would be too expensive and the demand for it would be too low .
The Queen, while longing for gold and profits, was taking her job as the moral and spiritual protector of the Caribbean people a little more seriously than the settlers had expected and wished. She would not approve of a lively trade in enslaved Caribbean people.
Who replaced Columbus as Governor in 1498?
Francisco de Bobadilla
Who was appointed Governor of Hispaniola in 1502?
Nicolas de Ovando
In_______ a Spanish group led by Juan _________ captured Jamaica
1509, de Esquivel
In ______ Diego _______ colonized Cuba
1511, de Velazquez
What were the Laws of Burgos
These laws were passed by King Ferdinand in order to protect the Tainos.
These laws tried to improve the condition of the Taino by limiting their hours of labor, keeping children under 14 out of the mines, keeping families together and making the encomendero responsible for looking after their social welfare.
However, the laws also stated that the basic relationship of racial domination between the Spaniards and the Taino were not to be changed. In the introduction of the laws it stated that the taino were, by nature, inclined to be lazy, vicious and not interested in Christian learning. The laws also justified racism.
Who was the leader of the Dominicans in the 1520s?
Pedro de Cordoba
Bartholome Las casas had lived in both _______ and ___________ from _______ to _______.
Hispaniola, Cuba, 1502, 1512
What is the Spanish name for the Council of the Indies?
Consejo de las Indias
In ______ the Crown passed a body of legal provisions known as the New Laws
1542
What was the ‘New Laws’
These laws forbade the enslavement of Taino in the way that the Africans were enslaved as property. They also did not allow new encomiendas to be granted. The Crown ordered church members and royal officials to give up their encomiendas. These laws were supposedly humanitarian.
The real aim with these laws was to control and subdue the encomendero class as it was beginning to show signs of being a colonial elite, putting its own interests before that of the Crown.
The encomenderos resisted the New Laws. In 1545-46 the Crown was forced to cancel the laws and allow the encomenderos the right to leave encomienda grants to their sons and daughters as an inheritance known as vida. The the late 1590s the Tainos were virtually extinct.
Lucayas is now modern day______?
Bahamas
Barbudos is now modern day _________?
Barbados
Martinino is now modern day _________?
Martinique
Santa Lucia is now modern day _________?
St. Lucia
San Vincente is now modern day _________?
St. Vincent