P.1 1492-1607 Key Terms Flashcards
Encomienda
A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area…(A system of slavery by the Spanish)
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas-early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americans and to call for the abolition of slavery there
Pope’s Rebellion
Killed over 400 Spaniards,destroyed many missions churches in an effort to diminish the Catholic physical presence on Pueblo land…(An indication of the deiscontent and the grievances of the Pueblo Indians against both the religious and the economic practices of the Spanish in the seventeenth century)
Black Legend
Term indicating an unforgivable image of Spain and Spaniards,accusing them of cruelty and intolerance…(A historiography phenomenon in which a sustained trend in historical writing of biased reporting and introduction of fabricated or decontextualized facts directed against particular persons,nations or institutions)
Mestizos
A person of mixed European and Indigenous
Of evenly mixed Indian and Hispanic ancestry
Missionary
A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country…(A person sent to a place to spread a religious faith)
Small Pox
It was devastating to the Native American.Small pox ultimately killed more Native Americans in the early centuries than any other disease or conflict…(it spread from one person to another causing fever and distinctive,progressive skin rash or death)
Mercantilism
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances
Salutary Neglect
Is the unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade colonists,this policy expanded freedom when it came to trade and self-government,and resulted in colonial growth and prosperity
