What were some of the new types of governments and societies that developed in the Americas?

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Answer 1

A. New types of government in America
1. colonies had to adapt to new environments and, in many cases, to the
presence of new neighbors
a. sectarian religious communities
b. democratic commonwealths
c. plantation economies
d. bureaucratic state
1. little delegation of authority to nobles and towns
e. idea of a modern state in the Spanish New World Empire
1. bureaucratic state and a state governed by laws
f. African political structures in America
1. independent states established by runaway "maroons,"
sometimes in collaboration with Native Americans
g. new microsocieties
1. the missions
2. the slave plantations
3. the little kingdoms runaway slaves set up
4. the households Spanish conquerors founded with
pretensions to nobility and native wives or concubines
5. creole
6. Native societies survived, sometimes by evading the
Europeans, sometimes through collaboration
7. substitution of new elites
a. new elites were not just composed of Europeans
but also of newly elevated Native American
individuals and communities
b. new class of opportunistic Native American
ladinos arose—who learned Spanish and earned Spanish trust