Latin American Independence Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. By law, Native villages were forced to provide ___ in Spanish mines and farms.
  2. 5. Creoles had ancestors that were the original ___.
  3. 7. Peninsulares made up less than ________ of the colonial population.
  4. 9. People born in Spain and migrated to the colonies.
  5. 11. Ranches and plantations
  6. 12. People of mixed African and Spanish blood.
  7. 13. ______ made up 11% of the colonial population.
  8. 14. Blacks in Spanish America were able to buy their ___.
Down
  1. 1. People of pure Spanish blood, who were born in Latin America.
  2. 3. These people made up well over 50% of the population of colonial Latin America.
  3. 4. Peninsulares had high-ranking jobs in the _____, church or trade.
  4. 6. People of mixed Spanish and Indian heritage, who made up about 7% of the populations in 1800.
  5. 8. Official slaves were of ________ descent.
  6. 10. There was little room for _____ ______ in the social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America.