Homework- Please answer the following questions:

150-300 Words Needed:

Reading: “State, Church and Society,” in A History of Latin America. Read pp. 95-121.

• What were the major features of the colonial political system and the institutions through which it operated?

• Why was the Spanish crown unable to enforce much colonial legislation?

• What was the relation between church and state, and how did it affect the reformed clergy, divisions within the church, and the clergy’s moral decline?

• What was the status of colonial women, sexual behavior within the colonial structure, and changing views regarding free choice in marriage decisions?