Question

Under Spanish Rule, Latin American society had characteristics that violated Enlightenment concepts of equality for all, and natural rights. Which answer below is an example of this violation of Enlightenment rights?
a. Constitutional guarantee of rights.


b. A rigid social class system strictly determined by birth, which granted rights to some and restricted rights from others.


c. Consent of the governed allowing the government to operate on the social contract.


d. Direct democracy to determine the next public leader.

Answer 1

The answer would be D

Answer 2

The correct answer is B) A rigid social class system strictly determined by birth, which granted rights to some and restricted rights from others.

Under Spanish Rule, Latin American society had characteristics that violated Enlightenment concepts of equality for all, and natural rights. The answer below that is an example of this violation of Enlightenment rights is "A rigid social class system strictly determined by birth, which granted rights to some and restricted rights from others."

Indeed, the Spaniards imposed the rule of the monarchy to control the Latin American territories known in that time as New Spain, mostly what today is México. That monarchical presence in New Spain oppressed the Native Indians and was a big cause of the independence movement in Méxio, lead by Priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.