Grade 7 Social Studies Aim: Spanish Rule (p. 5455) Do Now: Read pages 5455. Then answer: What groups made up the class system in Spanish America? Bartolome de Las Casa Homework: Using cookbooks as references, create an AllAmerican dinner menu that features only food introduced to Europeans by Native Americans. Use looseleaf paper. (due Wednesday) La Encomienda
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1. Grade 7 Social Studies Aim: Spanish Rule (p. 5455) Do Now:
Read pages 5455. Then answer: What groups made up the class system
in Spanish America? Bartolome de Las Casa La Encomienda Homework:
Using cookbooks as references, create an AllAmerican dinner menu
that features only food introduced to Europeans by Native
Americans. Use looseleaf paper. (due Wednesday)
2. Grade 7 Social Studies The Spanish established three kinds
of settlements in the Americas: 1. Pueblos 2. Missions 3.
Presidios
3. Grade 7 Social Studies The hierarchy of the social classes
from upper to lower included: 1. peninsulares 2. creoles 3.
mestizos 4. Native Americans 5. enslaved Africans
4. Grade 7 Social Studies The Spanish developed a system of
encomiendas that created enslaved Native Americans. A conquistator
could demand taxes and labor from the Native Americans living on
the land.
5. Grade 7 Social Studies Bartolome de Las Casas, a priest,
condemned this harsh treatment and fought against it. As a result,
Spain passed the New Laws in 1542 that forbade enslaving Native
Americans.