Study Guide - Savvas Realize Topic 2.1 topic

Why do you think mestizos ranked higher than Indians in this social class system?

• because mestizos had a partly Spanish background

• because mestizos worked as tradesmen

• because mestizos were born in America

• because mestizos worked in cities

On what were social classes in New Spain based?

• education

• ancestry

• occupation

• wealth

​ (a)   were born in Spain and held the highest jobs in the government​

• Peninsulares

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Indians

• Enslaved Africans

​ (a)   were wrongly beleived to suffer less from hard work and imported to replace Indian laborers

• Enslaved Africans

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Peninsulares

• Indians

were often wealthy but barred from some jobs and born in the Americas to Spanish Parents.

• Enslaved Africans

• Mestizos

• Indians

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

Often worked as tradesmen and were mixed Spanish and Indian background

• Enslaved Africans

• Indians

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

• Mestizos

were treated as conquered people and were mostly free but poor

• Peninsulares

• Enslaved Africans

• Mestizos

• Indians

• Creoles

One reason why the Spanish easily conquered the Americas was that the Aztecs and Incas lacked

• loyalty to their leaders.

• resistance to European diseases.

• wealth and power.

• the will to fight to the death.

What is the best way to describe the results of the Spanish expeditions into the borderlands in the early 1500s?

• nothing of importance was discovered.

• They were successful, with many new settlements established.

• They were mostly unsuccessful, in part due to strong Indian resistance.

• They brought great wealth but also some hardship.

Spanish presidios were...

• schools for Spanish children to continue their education.

• festivals to celebrate Spain's conquest of the Americas.

• tracts of land on which farmers could grow crops.

• forts that protected food and settlers in the area.