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Topic 23: Revolution! Contested Identities in Latin America, 1750-1914

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	By 1830 all of Spanish South America had gained its independence.    True  False

	Based on the ideas of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, Latin American politicians found in the philosophy of Utilitarianism a guiding set of principles.    True  False

	With the expansion of coffee-growing came an intensification of slavery in Brazil.    True  False

	The Brazilian monarchy could not survive the abolition of slavery and was toppled in a bloodless coup only one year after abolition.    True  False

	Under Porfirio Diaz, foreign investment in Mexico was discouraged in order to foster indigenous capitalization of industry.    True  False

	The triangular trade consisted of exchanges of goods between Latin America, Europe, and Asia.    True  False

	During the wars of independence, all of Latin America became free from colonial rule.    True  False

	Popular discontent due to the harsh conditions suffered by Latin American peasants and miners played an important role in the wars for independence.    True  False

	After Brazil won its independence in 1822, it was governed by an emperor named Pedro who was the son of the Portuguese ruler.    True  False

	Due to its focus on internal development and industrialization, the United States did not play an important role in Latin American politics in the mid-nineteenth century.    True  False

	In the late nineteenth century, some countries in Latin America had a higher percentage of immigrants than the United States.    True  False

	U.S. and European interference in the economy of Latin American countries increased in the late nineteenth century.    True  False

	Extensive mining interests made the countries in the Andes region of Latin America (Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador) the most prosperous in Latin America in the late nineteenth century.    True  False

	Liberals in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century were strong proponents of democracy and social reform.    True  False

	The economies of most countries in Latin America became more prosperous from the mid-nineteenth century onward.    True  False

	France was by far the leading foreign investor in Latin America until World War I.    True  False

	General de Santa Anna served as president of Mexico eleven times.    True  False

	Between 1870 and World War I, immigrants comprised one third of Argentina’s population.    True  False

	In the 1830s, the Bahamas were the world’s largest exporter of sugar.    True  False

	Like the United States, the issue of slavery was enormously divisive within Latin America.    True  False

	A major cause of the Mexican Revolution was land-grabbing by the government at the expense of the native Indians.    True  False

	Lazaro Cardenas initiated the reform that gave women the right to divorce.    True  False

	Brazil’s most important export was sugar.    True  False

	By the end of the eighteenth century, the number of Spanish-born people in the New World, called peninsulares or europeos, had significantly decreased.    True  False

	The Indo-African zambos were at the bottom of the social scale in the Spanish New World.    True  False

	The Dominican and Jesuit orders led the conversion efforts of the Spanish Catholic Church in the New World.    True  False

	The West Indies was an area of major contention and competition between the various European powers in the New World.    True  False

	There was no single, unified movement toward independence in Mexico, Central America, and South America.    True  False

	The Latin American revolutions greatly enhanced the power and prestige of the Catholic Church.    True  False

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