How were the Spanish successful in creating a centralized political system in their American colonies?
a. Through the extraordinary use of military power
b. By installing Jesuits in important political positions
c. By allowing large landowners to collect taxes from local peoples
d. By placing viceroys, governors, and other royal officials in dominant positions
e. By including locally-born Spaniards in the colonial governments
d
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A) Masters in the South could not afford it. B) Cotton ripened at varying times, and machines could not predict the timing. C) Masters wanted to keep their slaves busy, so they avoided the use of any time-saving equipment. D) African-American slaves refused to use machines to process cotton.
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