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LA-Colonialism, Independence,and development of Underdevelop
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
11/11/2009

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Who Conquered Brazil?
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Portugal
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Who Conquered most of LA?
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Spain
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British French and Dutch divided what areas?
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Guiana and Caribbean Islands
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Colonial Era lasted from when to when?
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1500's to early 1800's
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Latin American colonies exported raw materials and agriculture products to who?
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Imperial Powers
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Who was used for labor initially, but died quickly in mines and plantations?
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Indigenous peoples, thus African slaves were imported for slavery.
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who owned most the land and was granted the land by European Kings?
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Large Landowners
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What was the consequence of concentrated land ownership and slavery?
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Highly stratified and unequal societies with a small, very wealthy elite leaving the vast majority very poor.
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Independence began when?
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1800's
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Who started the Independence rebellion?
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Spanish Colonies rebelled against Spain in the 1810s and 1820s and won independence, Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1825.
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Who did the new nations model their laws after?
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France and US. They sought to become developed like the core nations and so Elites blocked political participation by the rest of society, therefore the military often seized control and installed dictators.
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Who was the most powerful core nation that replaced Spain as a major investor and trade partner in LA (Just like the rubber boom)
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Great Britain.
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What was LA's key problem to following the cores model of development?
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The core was never underdeveloped, just undeveloped. making the model not useful.
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What made LA underdeveloped?
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Colonial legacy of concentrated landowners, extreme inequality, export led economy, blocking of political participation by elites, made independent development difficult/impossible
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Underdevelopment
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A process of exploitation of a peripher by a core nation that benefits the core nations economic growth but leaves the periphery with a legacy of inequality, lost resources, political instability, and environmental degradation that makes future development very difficult
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Characteristics of Latin America Today
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Colonial legacy (extreme inequality, political instability, exporting to the core, and underdevelopment still exist, some economic growth is occurring but most still poor.
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