Test

Question 0

Dweller

Answer 0

Someone who dwells in a particular place

Question 1

Cimarron

Answer 1

Fugitive slave (maroon)

Question 2

Punitive expedition

Answer 2

Of military assault with the purpose of punishing a country or group of people

Question 3

River bed

Answer 3

The channel through which a river flows, The ground on the bottom of the river

Question 4

Substance farming

Answer 4

Growing just enough food to feed immediate family

Question 5

Agrarian

Answer 5

Related to farmers and farming

Question 6

Bozal

Answer 6

A slave who has recently arrived in a country, directly from Africa

Question 7

Islet

Answer 7

A small island

Question 8

Plantation

Answer 8

A large farm especially in the tropics or subtropics devoted primarily to a single crop such as sugarcane and cotton

Question 9

Corsair

Answer 9

Pirate… Argh me MATIES!!!

Question 10

Magistrate

Answer 10

The spaniards king has a viceroy Who lived in santo Domingo, the highest authority in PR was the “alcalde mayor” or magistrate

Question 11

1st governor

Answer 11

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 12

Diego Colon

Answer 12

Viceroy, lived in alcazande de colon (st. Dom.)

Question 13

Diego Colon removed Juan Ponce de Leon and appointed…

Answer 13

Juan Ceron as magistrate and Miguel Diaz as alguacil mayor

Question 14

1510

Answer 14

The king gives the Ponce his title back

Question 15

PR’s natural resources

Answer 15

Good and Taino labor

Question 16

16th century

Answer 16

Mining gold in riverbeds, and in Savannas or plains near the river

Question 17

Rivers that produced gold

Answer 17

Northern coast:

• Rio Grande de Loiza
• La plata
• cibuco
• streams flowing from la sierra to Luquillo

Question 18

Not all farmers were encomenderos, some were…

Answer 18

Supervisor and foremen

Question 19

Mining workers were organized into crews:

Answer 19

• digs
• wash the gravel
• separate the gold
• Carry gold to collection areas
• melt/mold
• send to Spain

Question 20

1/3 workers were…

Answer 20

Women

Question 21

Bateas

Answer 21

Instrument to separate the gold, gold was heavy so gold dust and nuggets would sink to the bottom

Question 22

Some tainos were paid for their work with…

Answer 22

Cheap clothing, alpar gatas (sandals) since their nudity offended the spaniards.

Question 23

During this time many tainos died of…

Answer 23

Malnutrition since the tainos kept most of the food harvested

Question 24

Spaniards brought in ___ to replace the ___ population

Answer 24

Africans, Taino

Question 25

Many slaves worked at ___ and ___

Answer 25

Plantations, refineries

Question 26

The first slaves brought to ___ worked in the ___ mines

Answer 26

PR, gold

Question 27

The 1530 ___ stated that Africans were a ___ in PR's population

Answer 27

Census, majority

Question 28

Most Africans brought in the ___ were ___ , they were believed to be ___ and better suited for the work in the ___ and ___ plantations

Answer 28

16th century, men, stronger, mines, sugar cane

Question 29

From 16th to 18th century slaves were branded with ___ ___, it was the mark of the ___

Answer 29

Hot, iron, gov.

Question 30

The mark branded into slaves was called ___ , and it was branded in the ___ or ___ to prove the slaves were ___

Answer 30

Carimbo, face, back, legal

Question 31

The slaves were sold at an ___

Answer 31

Auction

Question 32

The slaves worked from ___ to ___ during zafra, when ___ was harvested

Answer 32

Sun up, sun down, sugarcane

Question 33

The slaves had to...

Answer 33

- Cut the sugar cane - Carry it to the mill - remove hard cutter layer - ground the stalks - boil the juice - stir it - pour it into containers to store it - transported to oxcarts (to be transported to Europe)

Question 34

Thousands of Africans died of ___,___ and other causes in the plantations and refineries

Answer 34

Exhaustion, diseases

Question 35

Maroons and slave rebellions:

Answer 35

1514: some Africans and tainos took part in an uprising, 4 rebels were hanged with trial. 1531: another revolt

Question 36

Several bozzales, ___ rebelled and killed several ___

Answer 36

Newly arrived slave, spaniards

Question 37

Gov. ___ subdued the rebelion

Answer 37

Francisco Manuel de Londo

Question 38

The colonist panicked, the municipal council of ___ considered asking the ___ of ___ to Prohibit the importation of ____ in PR

Answer 38

San Juan, king, Spain, Africans

Question 39

The did not request the ban on the importation of Africans because...

Answer 39

They needed slaves

Question 40

1531

Answer 40

The king prohibited slaves from the Wolof people to be imported to PR

Question 41

Slaves were more likely to ___ and ___ than to rebel

Answer 41

Run, hide

Question 42

Maroons ___ in the forest and some joined the ___

Answer 42

Hid, tainos

Question 43

Maroons would form small ___ and raid the spaniards for ___,___ and other items

Answer 43

Communities,food, clothing

Question 44

Spaniards orginized ___ on the maroons

Answer 44

Ambushes

Question 45

Once the maroons were captured, they were...

Answer 45

Returned to their owners, or turned over to the authorities and subject to physical punishment

Question 46

In the eyes of their ___, maroons were a lost ___

Answer 46

Masters, investment

Question 47

Maroons would ___ from farms and ___ on other slaves to rebel

Answer 47

Steal, incite

Question 48

Changes in population:

Answer 48

1508: 50,000 to 70,000 tainos 1530: only 4,170 people living in PR, 1,535 tainos, 333 spaniards, 2304 Africans, women were a minority and without them there would be no births

Question 49

Not only did the tainos and Africans fall but..

Answer 49

Once the gold was finished, the spaniards were left in ruins

Question 50

These who were obtaining ___ from the mines had to pay a high ___

Answer 50

Gold, almofarizasgo

Question 51

Almofarizasgo

Answer 51

Customs tot items leaving or entering PR

Question 52

Alcabala

Answer 52

IVU

Question 53

The crown asked for ___ of the gold found! this was why many left to Mexico in ___ and Peru in ___

Answer 53

20%, 1520's,1530's