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Argentine Revolution
Sierra G, Hannah W, Amelia C
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Viceroys/colonial officer | Administrative official who rules a colony on behalf of the ruler of the mother country |
| Creoles | Spaniards born in the Americas |
| Encomienda | the right to organize unpaid labor by the earliest Spanish colonists in Latin America. |
| Hacienda | A Spanish owned plantation that used native or slave labor |
| Mestizo | a person of Spanish and Native American descent |
| Mulattoes | a person of European and African descent |
| Vice-royalty of the Rio de La Plata | vice-royalty of the Spanish empire which encompassed modern-day Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Argentina, its capital being Buenos Aires. |
| Ferdinand VII of Spain | king of Spain until Joseph Bonaparte overthrew him and he was abdicated. the colonies accepted him as rightful leader of Spain, however, they did not accept Joseph because he was not Spanish |
| Continental System | Napoleon forbade his allies and conquests to trade with Britain. Britain needed to be able to trade with Spanish colonies, but was not able to do so as the colonies were restricted to only trading with parent state |
| abdication | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| Viceroy Baltasar Hidaldo de Cisneros | previously a Spanish naval officer, served as the last viceroy of Rio de La Plata ruling in the Seville junta, governing body ruling on behalf of the Spanish crown. He was deposed as a viceroy during the May revolution and was later banished to Spain |
| Joseph Bonaparte | Napoleon Bonaparte's brother and king of Naples then Spain. He was the king of Spain during the Argentine Revolution of 1810. |
| Primera Junta | also called the First Assembly. It was he firsy independent government of Argentina. It was created in 1810 as a result of the May Revolution. esisted Joseph Bonaparte's rule. |
| Junta | a committee formed to govern over a specific area, commonly formed after a revolution of sorts |
| Supreme Court Junta | established in 1808 and was formed due to discord between other juntas over which one of them governs directly in representation of the crown |
| May Revolution | a series of events in 1810 that lasted a week and took place in Buenos Aires. It removed viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros and successfully implemented the primera junta |
| Cabildo | a meeting of creole officials that consulted on the future governmental structure of the viceroy |
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