Exam2

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Latin American History Exam II

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Multiple Choice: Please know the “who

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how

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following:

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-Bartolom de las Casas- Destruction of the Indies and “The Only Method of

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Converting the Indians”

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-Encomienda System

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-Hatuey and the Spanish Conquest of Cuba- thought on Christian Heaven

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-las Casas on conversion by force

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-Columbian Exchange

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-Plantations in Latin America before 1650s- cash crop

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-Switch to sugarcane cultivation- dangerous

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much higher demand for labor

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decline in indentured European volunteers

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rise in sugar prices- creates a

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cycle of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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-Demand for labor highest in Sugar Plantations in Guadeloupe

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Martinique

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and particularly Barbados

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-West Indian society in the 18th C.

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-Slaves’ lives- task system

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gangs

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punishments for not making quotas

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slavedrivers

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continues Slave trade cycle

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always rebelled in some form

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-French Colony of Saint Domingue- Haitian Revolution

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Toussaint

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L’Ouverture

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

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-French Revolution- changing government’s role in the Haitian Revolution

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-Roots of Revolution in 19th C.- wealthy colonial resident’s frustrations

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role

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of the Napoleonic Wars

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-Simon Bolivar- leader of Venezuelan Revolutionaries

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grand plan

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-Revolution in Buenos Aires- fate of the United Provinces of the Rio de la

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Plata

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-Mexico- important Spanish Colony

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Rebellion under Miguel Hidalgo

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military revolt in Spain- Iturbide declares Independence

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himself Emperor

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1823 Mexican military overthrow Iturbide

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found Republic of Mexico

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-Brazil- Pedro I

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liberal policies- independent Constitutional Monarchy

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loses popularity; Pedro II rules for nearly 60 years

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-Latin America's trouble with constitutionality and representative

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government- lack of experience

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role of the Catholic Church

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military

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powerful individual leaders