Question 1

Transatlantic slave trade

Accepted Answer

The system of buying, selling, and transporting African people to the Americas and other parts of the world as slaves

Question 2

Chattel slavery

Accepted Answer

The system in which slaves were considered the property of their owners and had no legal rights. They could be bought, sold, traded, or inherited, just like any other form of property.

Question 3

The Spanish conquistadors

Accepted Answer

A group interested in God, glory, and gold under Hernan Cortes

Question 4

Encomienda System in New Spain

Accepted Answer

the king of Spain gave grants of land and natives to individual Spaniards, known as encomenderos, in exchange for their loyalty to Spain. The Native Americans, termed encomendados, had to farm or work in the mines extracting precious metals and resources. Their fruits went to their Spanish masters, who in turn, had to “care” for them.

Question 5

Asiento system

Accepted Answer

The Spanish system of buying enslaved Africans for free labor. This system required the Spanish to pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported to the Americas.

Question 6

Caste system in New Spain.

Accepted Answer

The diversity of European, African, and Native American groups led the Spanish to develop a caste system to define the status of these populations under the Spanish empire based on race and ethnicity. This social hierarchy determined the social, economic, and political status of individuals in the colonies.

1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System, AP United States History Flashcards