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Sao Paulo*
Brazil
Caracas
Capital of Venezuela
Lima*
Peru
Rio De Janeiro*
Brazil
Belo Horizonte*
Brazil
La Paz*
Bolivia
Medellin*
Colombia
Bogota
Capital of Colombia
Brasilia
Capital of Brazil
Asuncion*
Paraguay
Buenos Aires
Capital of Argentina
Georgetown*
Guyana
Paramaribo*
Suriname
Santiago
Capital of Chile
Quito*
Ecuador
Cayenne*
French Guiana
San Salvador*
El Salvador
Belmopan*
Belize
San Jose
Capital of Costa Rica
Panama City
Capital of Panama
Port au Prince
Capital of Haiti
Santo Domingo
Capital of Dominican Republic
San Juan
Capital of Puerto Rico
Havana
Capital of Cuba
Nassau*
Bahamas
Tegucigalpa
Capital of Honduras
Managua
Capital of Nicaragua
St. George*
Grenada
Guatemala City*
Guatemala
Kingston*
Jamaica
A system of forced indigenous labor ran by Spanish conquistadors
Encomienda
A mandatory labor system in Peru to work on state projects & mining, inspired by the previously existing system run by the Incan Empire
Mita
Forced resettlement of indigenous people into planned towns ran by colonial authorities
Reducciones
People of pure white Spanish descent who were born in Spain but lived in the colonies
Peninsulares
A person of European descent born in Spanish America
Creoles
Political warlords who got rules much of South America post independence by calling themselves âliberation generalsâ
Caudillo
A person of mixed European and Indigenous descent
Mestizo
A person of mixed European and African descent
Mulatto
A land grant program used in the 13 British colonies to attract settlers to solve labor shortages
The Headright System
A Spanish colonizer who was granted the right from the Spanish Crown to extract labor and tribute from the Indigenous
Encomendero
forced work for a Spanish landlord for wages or a share of the crop, often a debt trap
Peonage
committees of officers representing the armed forces who get power through overthrowal who replaced the Caudillo
Juntas
A system that forced the Indigenous to carry heavy systems
Trajin
Periodically forced labor with quotas
Repartir
The person who led the initial conquest on the Incas
Pizarro
The person who lead the initial conquest on the Aztecs
Cortez
The person who lead the conquest in Buenos Aires
De Solis
The person who led the conquest in Cuba and caused Cortezâs downfall
Velazquez
The person who established reducciones on the Incas in Bolivia (adapting the Mita system), destroying the future economic potential of the region
De Toledo
A Dominican priest who recorded Spanish expeditions and Native mistreatment
De Las Casas
Sent by Napoleon II to rule Mexico from 1864-1867
Maximilian
The person who organized a plan for an independent Mexico but ended up becoming a dictator
de Iturbide
The person who lead the expedition to Panama
Balboa
Led the first expedition to set foot on mainland South America
Ojeda
According to the Spanish, the best way to subdue opposition was to _____
capture their leader
Laws Divine, Moral, and Marshall entailed ____
strict discipline and punishments
President and dictator in Mexico (1876-1911)
Porfirio Diaz
Businessman who took entrepreneurial control of Mexico via his monopoly of Telmex, a telecommunications company
Carlos Slim
A petition that the law does not apply to you (intended as a safeguard of individual rights)
Ampura
Mexico City
Capital of Mexico
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