The Impact of Colonization

1. The Impact of Colonization Spanish rule in the Americas had terrible consequences for Native Americans and Africans

2. Key Vocabulary Encomienda Plantation Slavery African Diaspora Middle Passage Racism Columbian Exchange

3. Stay Classy • Spain Expands their American Empire and look to set up an effective government • Spain divided their land into two viceroyalties called New Spain and Peru led by a viceroy • The colonies were divided into a class system including: • Spaniards: Native to Spain • Creoles: Spanish settlers born into colonies • Mestizos: Mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry • Native Americans and Slaves with little or NO rights

4. The Beginning of Slavery • Catholic churches set up missionaries and towns to help convert Native Americans and increased Spain's control in the Americas • Spain would begin to give Encomiendas to the colonies to create free labor • Haciendas became large plantations that used Native Americans as Slaves

5. From bad to good • Native Americans began to be taken advantage of and were often overworked • Bartolome de las Casas Worked to pass laws protecting the Native Americans but laws were ignored • Some Native Americans rebelled against the colonists but few were successful

6. A new Slave • As Native Americans began to die out African Slavery rose in the colonies • Africans were enslaved because: • They were immune to European disease • No friends to seek help from in America • They were a permanent source of cheap labor • They had experience working on farms

7. A life less ordinary • Through African Diaspora over 12 million slaves were brought to the Americas • Slave Trade was known as the middle passage as it occurred in the middle of triangle trade • Two Million slaves would die en route to the Americas and those who survived faced hard labor

8. Survival Skills • As slaves began to run away or resist slavery, slave codes were passed to control slavery • Slavery led to Racism as Europeans began to look at slaves as inferior • As slave trade increased, African slaves survived by holding on to their culture • The slave culture would shape African culture as slavery was repealed

9. Unbalanced Trade • As Europeans came to the Americans they started up the Columbian Exchange of living things • Europeans brought germs to the Americas through trade • Disease would kill millions of Native Americans who had no immunity to the diseases in the first century after conquest

10. Bringing us closer together • The Columbian Exchange brought new livestock and crops to the Americas • American Crops helped Europe avoid starvation and spurred growth • The Columbian Exchange helped bring the two hemispheres closer together

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