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Title: Life in New Spain


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Life in New Spain
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Three Settlements
  • Pueblos Towns with farming and trade

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  • Presidios Forts where soldiers lived

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  • Missions Religious settlements run by Catholic
    Churches

5
Four Social Classes
  • Peninsulares People born in Spain
  • Creoles People born to Spanish parents
  • Mestizos Mixed Spanish and Indian
  • Indians

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Natives
  • Kept in poverty
  • No voting rights
  • Were forced to work and pay steep taxes
  • Worked in Gold and Silver mines, hard labor on
    farms and ranches

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Cultural Trade
  • Spanish language took over
  • Catholic Church took over
  • Ponchos and moccasins became fashionable
  • Adobe bricks and Native paintings became famous
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