Author Question: Which of these was not mentioned in Jos Antonio Areche's report on Mexico's economy? A) ... (Read 58 times)

JGIBBSON · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Which of these was not mentioned in Jos Antonio Areche's report on Mexico's economy?

A) Landowners paid wages in goods rather than cash and treated their workers badly.
B) Spain slowed Mexico's development by extracting 500 million pesos of its silver output.
C) Spanish merchants engaged in the forced sale of goods to indigenous communities.
D) Landed estates were inefficient, heavily indebted, and relied on primitive tilling methods.

Question 2

The conflict at Real del Monte sought

A) more political independence for criollo landlords threatened by Bourbon royal authority.
B) redistribution of land to peasants and abolition of debt servitude.
C) restoration of pay cuts for workers, a form of profit-sharing, and the firing of abusive bosses.
D) protection of indigenous communal lands and the recognition of native political autonomy.