How did Portugal and Spain govern their colonies to promote economic gain and exert their authority?

Explain how the social status of mestizos changed over time.

What were the social characteristics of colonial Latin America?

Using your graphic organizer of characteristics of colonial Latin America, summarize the political and economic features.

Indigenous populations of colonial Latin America were forced to work for years under the encomienda and mita systems. Write three paragraphs that explain how these systems were the result of economic and political expansion.

Find the equation of the tangent to: a. $y=\sqrt{2 x+1} \quad \text { at } \quad x=4$ b. $y=\frac{1}{2-x} \quad \text { at } \quad x=-1$ c. $f(x)=\frac{x}{1-3 x} \quad \text { at } \quad\left(-1,-\frac{1}{4}\right)$ d. $f(x)=\frac{x^{2}}{1-x} \quad \text { at } \quad(2,-4)$

Indigenous populations of colonial Latin America were forced to work for years under the encomienda and mita systems. Write three paragraphs that explain how these systems were the result of economic and political expansion.

What authority does Lincoln claim for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

Use your graphic organizer on the Columbian Exchange to list the plants, animals, and diseases that were exchanged among Europe and Africa and the Americas.

Write a sentence about each pair of terms below. The sentences should show how the terms are related. entitlement, balanced budget

How were Spain and Portugal able to take the lead in discovering new lands?

Using your graphic organizer of characteristics of colonial Latin America, summarize the political and economic features.

On a separate sheet of paper, answer the questions below. Make sure you read carefully and answer all parts of the questions. Due to distance and communication limitations, European monarchs could not closely monitor overseas empires. Therefore, colonial officials carried out policies. What was the effect of this type of arrangement?

How did the Columbian Exchange affect the Americas and Europe?