Latin American History Since Independence Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments in Latin America from the early nineteenth century to the present. It examines the struggles for independence and nation-building, the evolution of diverse political systems, and the shifting dynamics of race, class, and gender. Students will analyze key historical events such as revolutions, reform movements, military dictatorships, and processes of democratization. The course also addresses the impact of foreign influence, including U.S. intervention, economic globalization, and regional integration. Through primary sources and scholarly analyses, students will gain insight into the forces shaping contemporary Latin American societies.
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Chapter 1: Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic
World,1400 1600
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Q1) The term "Renaissance" means
A)new light.
B)beauty.
C)perfection.
D)new start.
E)rebirth.
Answer: E
Q2) The traditions of Aztec human sacrifice and blood rituals were probably related to
A)the death of an elderly princess by Huitzilopochtli.
B)the pregnancy of a princess by Huitzilopochtli.
C)Huitzilopochtli killing and dismembering the priestess's daughter.
D)demands from Huitzilopochtli for sacrifices.
E)something that cannot be determined since there is no available source or record.
Answer: C
Q3) Modern historians relate the Renaissance to the evolution of the printing press.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia,1500 1700
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Q1) The main emphasis of the Neo-Confucian philosophy was that
A)a sage is produced after years of close observation of the external world.
B)Islam, Christianity, and Judaism were false religions.
C)all classes were intellectually equal.
D)everyone is born with innate knowledge.
E)the moral constraints of Confucianism did not create a person of impeccable character.
Answer: D
Q2) By 1582,the population of China had reached A)50 million.
B)500,000,000.
C)10 million.
D)1 million.
E)120 million.
Answer: E
Q3) Grand Canal
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q4) Sikhism
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 3: Religion, Politics, and the Balance of Power in Western
Eurasia, 1500 1750
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Q1) The term kizilbash is related to the color of the Azerbaijan A)horses.
B)flags and banners.
C)turbans.
D)boots.
E)tunics.
Answer: C
Q2) Abbas demonstrated the concept that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" by forming an alliance between
A)Shi'ites and Sufis against the Sunnis.
B)Iranians and Europeans against Constantinople.
C)Ottomans and Europeans against Iran.
D)Europeans and Russians against the Ottomans.
E)Sunnis and Sufis against the Shi'ites.
Answer: B
Q3) Süleyman is considered the greatest Safavid ruler.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Empires, Colonies, and Peoples of the Americas, 1600 1750
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Q1) The mixing of peoples and cultures in the Spanish territories became more complex as a result of
A)the forced migration of African slaves.
B)the forced mixing of indigenous peoples and African slaves by the Spanish.
C)the introduction of Slavic slaves purchased from Muslim traders.
D)native-born populations mixing with local peoples.
E)the mixing of the already mixed populations with the Spanish.
Q2) Which of these practices helped ease Amerindians' transition to Christianity?
A)Baptism
B)The principles of heaven and hell
C)Crucifixion of Christ
D)Worshiping saints that represented the past polytheism of Amerindian converts
E)Acknowledging the Spanish as being specially chosen by local gods
Q3) Why did the Spanish colonies fail to produce long-term economic growth for Spain?
A)The Portuguese challenged the Spanish in the Americas.
B)The Spanish were too reliant on mineral wealth alone.
C)More advanced militaries were being developed by European powers.
D)Spain's long-term investments in other products did not pay off.
E)Spanish colonies lacked the rich soil needed for a lucrative staple crop.
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Chapter 5: The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and Europe,
1550 1807
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Q1) In the Great Lakes region of Africa,wealth was associated with A)land.
B)the number of wives a man could support.
C)cattle.
D)the number of children in a household.
E)slaves captured or purchased.
Q2) The triangular trade involved Europe,Africa,and A)India.
B)the colonial Americas.
C)North America.
D)China.
E)Brazil.
Q3) fictive kinship
Q4) Religion was the area where Africans could best resist the torment of slavery by A)refusing to be converted into Christians.
B)transferring their African religion in total to the Americas.
C)transforming African gods into Christian saints.
D)ignoring preachers' sermons that emphasized obedience.
E)translating the Bible into various African languages.
Q5) Igbo
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Chapter 6: Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650 1837
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Q1) By 1750,the reforms of the Yoshimune government
A)advanced Japan to become a major economic power in the East.
B)prevented unrest in the countryside.
C)allowed the use of unpaid labor, which helped farmers produce for the urban market.
D)allowed Japan's economy to do no more than struggle to stand still.
E)passed reforms that allowed for greater access to water and forest products by farmers.
Q2) The reforms of Yoshimune's government brought Japan into the modern international market by 1750.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Emperor Kangxi
Q4) What steps did Russia take to expand its empire in the eighteenth century?
Q5) Because of the actions taken by Robert Clive and the British East India Company,the British government took over political and military affairs in India.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the path of the Manchu to assume the throne of China.
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Chapter 7: European Science and the Foundations of
Modern Imperialism, 1600 1820
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Q1) What example of biological diffusion in the eighteenth century?
A)Kew Gardens
B)Deforestation of the Amazon Forest
C)Transfer of breadfruit to England
D)Columbian exchange
E)Extinction of local animal and plant species
Q2) For Linnaeus,the orderly relationship among living things demonstrated the A)inherent rationality of the cosmos.
B)absence of a God.
C)harmony of God's creation.
D)need for binomial classification.
E)impossibility for man to classify them.
Q3) George III
Q4) Which monarch was the first to call for compulsory public education?
A)Joseph II
B)George I
C)Maria Theresa of Austria
D)Frederick the Great
E)Catherine the Great
Q5) new science
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Chapter 8: Revolutions in the West, 1750 1830
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Q1) Discuss the importance of the Declaration of Independence.
Q2) The original goal of the National Assembly was to A)depose the king.
B)create a government identical to the American system.
C)create a constitutional monarchy.
D)create a classless society.
E)give rights to women.
Q3) Who has been dubbed "the father of conservatism"?
A)Alexander
B)John Locke
C)Napoleon
D)Edmund Burke
E)George Washington
Q4) Third Estate
Q5) The first South American country to declare its independence from Spain was A)Venezuela.
B)Bolivia.
C)Mexico.
D)Haiti.
E)Peru.
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Chapter 9: The Industrial Revolution and European Politics,
1765 1880
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Q1) What actions taken by Otto von Bismarck inspired great German pride?
A)His nationalization of the railroads
B)His appointment to the Frankfurt Assembly
C)His ability to crush anti-German demonstrators
D)His victories over Denmark, Austria and France
E)His contributions to Germany's economic growth
Q2) Darwin's theory of evolution
A)countered Newton's earlier theories.
B)removed mankind from the central place in the natural world.
C)was based on research done in the Caribbean.
D)were initially rejected by other natural scientists.
E)were denounced by Karl Marx.
Q3) Crimean War
Q4) The "putting-out" system included all of these features EXCEPT
A)a decentralized system of production.
B)a gendered division of labor.
C)men doing the work of weaving.
D)a centralized system of production.
E)women doing the work of spinning.
Q5) Emancipation Edict
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Chapter 10: The Challenge of Modernity in China, Japan, and India, 1800 1910
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Q1) Unlike Japanese and Chinese leaders during their struggles to adjust to the new conditions introduced by the West,Indian leaders and elites
A)were removed from their positions by the British.
B)came under direct British control.
C)shared power with the British.
D)were exiled to avoid rebellion.
E)overwhelmingly accepted Western ideas at the expense of tradition.
Q2) Self-Strengthening Movement
Q3) What was true of the Hakka society?
A)The Manchu were blamed for poisoning China and its subjects.
B)Women's feet were bound.
C)Men lavishly adorned their queues.
D)The Confucian ideas of hierarchy were completely assimilated.
E)Women embraced their dependent status.
Q4) Guangxou
Q5) Indian Civil Service
Q6) Fukuzawa Yûkichi
Q7) Indian National Congress
Q8) Partition of Bengal
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Chapter 11: State Building and Social Change in the
Americas, 1830 1910
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Q1) What was the result of the Indian Removal Act?
A)The Trail of Tears
B)The Cherokee Constitution
C)Amerindian uprisings in Ohio and the Great Lakes region
D)Attacks on the Florida Seminoles
E)Creation of Amerindian reservations in America's southeast
Q2) Indian Removal Act
Q3) Porfirio Diáz
Q4) The removal of old imperialistic-mercantilist restrictions over British-North American trade benefitted
A)European nations trading with Canada.
B)the United States.
C)Toronto.
D)Montréal.
E)Mexico.
Q5) "dependency complex"
Q6) Jim Crow laws
Q7) Gilded Age
Q8) Yucatán Rebellion
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Q9) Battle of Puebla
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Chapter 12: The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast
Asia, 1830 1914
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Q1) The Bangwato peoples,discussed in this chapter,resided in present-day
A)Botswana.
B)Zambia.
C)Mozambique.
D)Republic of South Africa.
E)Namibia.
Q2) The first area developed by the Europeans for its rubber was
A)the Philippines.
B)China.
C)Brazil.
D)Hawaii.
E)the Dutch East Indies.
Q3) To the Bangwato,the term Jah! Jah! meant
A)Welcome!
B)Be careful!
C)Oh dear!
D)It's time to pray!
E)I'm sorry!
Q4) Federation of Indochina
Q5) Yaa Asantewa's War
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Chapter 13: War, Revolution, and Global Uncertainty,
1905 1928
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Q1) southern front
Q2) Problems in dealing with the middle class challenged and divided the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Indochinese Labor Corps
Q4) total war
Q5) The Mexican Constitution of 1917 included
A)clauses protecting workers' rights.
B)expanded powers for the Catholic Church's power in Mexico.
C)privatized the mineral sector of the economy.
D)land redistribution to poorer Mexicans.
E)the end of private property rights.
Q6) Vladimir Lenin
Q7) To achieve power and a leadership position, Joseph Stalin
A)curried favor with the Russian tsar.
B)forced his rival, Leon Trotsky, into exile.
C)raised funds for the party.
D)embraced decentralized government.
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Chapter 14: Responses to Global Crisis, 1920 1939
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Q1) The careful and professional use of ____ was/were very effective in spreading the excitement of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
A)massive rallies
B)propaganda
C)allusions to past glory
D)public prosecution of Jews
E)comparisons to other nations in the pits of depression
Q2) Believing that inferiors were detrimental to the state,German medical practices involved the use of eugenics.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Spanish Civil War involved the Republican government,supported by ____,against the quasi-fascist Franco.
A)Germany
B)America
C)France
D)England
E)Portugal
Q4) gulags
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Chapter 15: The Second World War and the Origins of the
Cold War, 1939 1949
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Q1) Japanese brutality against American prisoners was seen after Pearl Harbor in A)the Bataan peninsula.
B)China.
C)Hong Kong.
D)Australia.
E)the Dutch East Indies.
Q2) Winston Churchill
Q3) Nancy Wake (1912?2011)
Q4) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Q5) Along with the estimated six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust,the Nazis also targeted other groups they considered undesirable,including especially A)Slavs.
B)Eastern Orthodox Christians.
C)the Roma.
D)Germans of Turkish descent.
E)Anabaptists.
Q6) Wannsee Conference
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Q7) What were the critical factors in the end that enabled the Allies to win the war? What roles did manpower,ideology,technology,and /or geography play,for example?
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Chapter 16: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1949 1975
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Q1) After 1948,the Afrikaner-dominated National Party in South Africa implemented
A)racial integration.
B)anticolonial laws.
C)trade agreements with the West.
D)a plan for independence.
E)apartheid or racial separation.
Q2) Although popular in the beginning of his rule,why was Sukarno eventually turned out of office in Indonesia?
A)He had difficulty defeating the Dutch military, still present in Indonesia.
B)He could not win the popular vote of the people.
C)He turned to the Soviet Union for aid and expertise.
D)He suspended the constitution.
E)He lost support due to his erratic policies, and the Indonesian military took power.
Q3) Those in opposition to Mao used the Cultural Revolution to criticize and humiliate him.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Q5) Tlatelolco Massacre
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Chapter 17: Toward a New World Order, 1975 2000
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Q1) Bantustans
Q2) Neoliberal economists believe that government intervention into markets can A)increase efficiency.
B)affect the availability of high-demand goods.
C)decrease corruption.
D)contribute to the strength of the European Union.
E)drive market growth.
Q3) Which Asian nation underwent the most dramatic transformation to become the fastest-growing economy in the world?
A)India
B)China
C)South Korea
D)Taiwan
E)Indonesia
Q4) Ulama
Q5) Ronald Reagan
Q6) Treaty on European Union
Q7) Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Q8) Confucian capitalism
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Chapter 18: Voyage into the Twenty First Century
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Q1) India's dowry system
A)has been all but eliminated as women explore new job and educational opportunities.
B)has led to increasing reports of bride murders as in-laws demand even greater dowry payments.
C)is a minor expense for parents.
D)is a relatively new custom.
E)applies to male and female children alike.
Q2) What is meant by "airpocalypse",which appeared in Beijing in 2013?
A)Clouds with remnants from earlier nuclear plant emissions
B)Visible clouds of greenhouse gases
C)Traveling clouds containing the H1N1 virus
D)Fumes from airplanes that made breathing difficult
E)Toxic clouds of coal smoke
Q3) Discuss the global financial situation in regard to crises,reactions,international ramifications,and how governmental policies have attempted to correct possible economic decline and even disaster?
Q4) regional trading blocs
Q5) greenhouse gases
Q6) Aung San Suu Kyi
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