fifth grade

1. Colonial Culture and Society
5th grade A
ColegioSaint Andrew

2. First social division
Spanish Colonists American Indigenous People
Domination

3. Domination
Occupation of
American Territory
Replication of
European social order
Spanish King
African Slaves and
indigenous People

4. Division of Social Classes
Social Status was:
-Based on etnicity
-legal
-economic
-class
Stratified society
The closer people
were to Spanish
ancesry the higher
their social status

5. Colonial Aristocracy: Spanish and Creole
• Spanish:
- Spanish political officials
-Important Church officials
• Creole:
-Hacienda owners
• Had the Political and
economic power.
• Spanish: born in Spain
• Creole: spanish children
born in Chile.
• Aristocractic families
were related by blood or
marriage.

6. Mestizos
• Ethnicity: descendants
of Spanish and
indigenous .
• Worked:
-agriculture
-mining
-artisanal trades

7. Indigenous
• Lived: rural areas
• Some Adopted: Spanish
language and
Christiaity.
• Worked:
- As forced labour in
encomiendas

8. Slaves
• Etnicity:
-African
-Multiracial:
-Mulatos
-Zambos
• Worked:
- Slaves no rights

9. Colonial Society
Spanish & Creole
Mestizos
Indigenous
African Slaves and
Mulatos

10. Mestizaje
-Process of mixing between Native Americans
and Spanish
-At first it was forbiden by the Crown.
-Indigenous mestizos were the
largest social group.
Only Spanish important government
positions
Creole participate in cabildos
Hacienda owners
Mestizos Labor force
-Mestizos neither Spanish or Indigenous
-So They worked as :
-Peons
-Tenants on haciendas
-Low ranking soldiers
-Artisans
-Small buisnessmen

11. Americas Multiracial Heritage

12. America´s Multiracial Heritage

13. America´s Multiracial Heritage
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