Chapter 09 Quiz for Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance

. The term applied to persons of mixed race parentage was

. Although elite women lacked the freedoms they enjoy today, they were able to move freely about their cities and villages and most were educated.

. The unstable character of the Latin American economy, caused by the region's reliance on exports for income, made all social classes more vulnerable.

. Local elites were composed almost exclusively of royal appointees sent from Iberia.

. All Iberian titles of nobility could be bequeathed to the holder's heir.

. Urban slaves in elite households typically lived in better surroundings than the multitude of free castas who sought work each day.

. The Spanish and Portuguese monarchies placed indio in a legal category that declared them unable to defend themselves under normal judicial practices because of

. To ensure the Christianization of the native population and prevent the demographic collapse seen in the Caribbean, the Crown

. The earliest Africans in the Indies spoke

. From the arrival of Europeans in the Indies until slavery was abolished, participation in military campaigns earned a slave his freedom.

. After the Spanish Crown abolished most Indian slavery in 1542,

. By royal decree, slaves were restricted to agricultural labor.

. Catholic and Protestant denominations alike justified slavery based on the presumed inferiority of the enslaved.

. Slaves recently imported from Africa were known as

. The legal status of children born in the Indies—free or enslaved—was based on the status of the mother.

. Marriage rates were consistent across all levels of society.

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