1. Effects of Spanish Colonization

2. Spanish Colonies
Divided claims into two territories, or viceroyalites, called New Spain and Peru
Each viceroyalty had a leader, called a viceroy, who ruled in the king’s name

3. Spanish Colonial Society
Spaniards
Creoles
Mestizos
Native Americans and enslaved Africans

4. Missions Built by the Catholic Church
Included a church building, town, and farmland
Helped convert Native Americans to Christianity
Increased Spanish control over the land
San Miguel Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico

5. Products Shipped to Europe
Haciendas
Encomienda
Hacienda
Products Shipped to Europe

6. African Slaves in North America
Four reasons why Africans were better slaves than Native Americans:
Immune to most European diseases
No friends or family to help them escape
Worked on farms in Africa
Permanent source of cheap labor

7. That’s three times the population of Kentucky.
The African Diaspora
The African Diaspora is the forced removal of Africans from their home continent.
Before the slave trade ended in the late 1800s, it is estimated that 12 million Africans had been enslaved and shipped to the Western Hemisphere.
That’s three times the population of Kentucky.

8. Middle Passage

9. Columbian Exchange Positive Effects Negative Effects
Plants and animals
Negative Effects
Diseases
Estimated that more than 20 million Native Americans were killed by European disease