Chapter 21 Quiz B with Explanations

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. How was the legal position of indigenous peoples in Spanish America similar to that of Russian serfs?

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. What Spanish policy led to increased participation in the market economy by native Americans after 1600?

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. Why did Spanish America import all its steel and iron products from Spain during the early modern period?

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. What helped to unify the diverse peoples of Spanish America during the early modern era?

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. Why did the Spanish develop the sistema de castas, or "system of castes," in the eighteenth century?

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. In early modern Spanish America, convents served as

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. What was the name given to Brazil's gold- and diamond-producing region in the eighteenth century?

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. Why did Rio de Janeiro become the largest city and colonial capital of Brazil by the mid-seventeenth century?

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. After the decline in gold production around 1800, the Brazilian economy focused on

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. Why were the Spanish unable to adequately defend their Caribbean possessions in the seventeenth century?

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. How did slavery in the Caribbean differ from slavery in Spanish America in Brazil during the eighteenth century?

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. How were people of mixed races treated differently in the Caribbean than in Portuguese Brazil?

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. Development of early modern Dutch, French, and English colonies in the Americas depended on

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. What issue in the Jamestown colony led to a settler rebellion in 1676?

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. How did English governance in their North American colonies compare with that of the Spanish in Central and South America?

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. Slave rebellions and mass marronage along the English Atlantic seaboard were limited due to the geography of the region and

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. Why did the Dutch government give freedom to the maroon colonies after the 1750s?

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. A major source for the history of the maroons in Suriname comes from

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