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

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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