Chapter 25 Pre-Test
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Chapter 25 Pre-Test Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1. Latin American revolutions were initially triggered by: a. increased tax money flowing back to Europe b. suppression of the church in Latin America c. Napoleon’s invasions of Spain and Portugal d. confiscation of all colonial lands 2. The Junta Central was a political body established: a. to organize the overthrow of colonial powers b. in Mexico to maintain European domination c. to coordinate many diverse revolutionary groups d. to rule Spain during French occupation 3. The overthrow of the Venezuelan, Mexican, and Bolivian colonial governments was initially led by: a. the uneducated peasantry b. local elites c. local church leaders d. slaves 4. In his revolution, Simon Bolivar was aided by: a. enlisting English veterans to his cause b. a military revolt in Spain c. both a and b d. none of the above 5. In 1810, Spain’s richest and most populous American colony was: a. Venezuela b. Brazil c. Peru d. Mexico 6. With the king of Spain imprisoned by the French, the authority of Spanish colonial officials was in reality based on: a. brute force b. popular sovereignty c. reason and compromise d. anarchy
7. The Mexican revolutionaries Jose Maria Morelos and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla were: a. lawyers b. priests c. military officers d. labor union organizers 8. After declaring independence in 1822, Brazil’s new government was a: a. constitutional republic b. constitutional monarchy c. dictatorship d. military dictatorship 9. Emperor Pedro I of Brazil: a. signed a treaty with Great Britain to end participation in the slave trade b. secretly favored slavery and sought to protect the slave-owning class c. had his popular son, Pedro II, murdered to protect his interests in the throne d. all of the above 10. One area most Latin American governments had difficulty with was: a. deciding whether the church would retain religious monopoly and control of education as in the colonial era b. deciding how many branches of government to have c. the relationship they would have with Europe d. how to keep the elites from taking over 11. In Latin America, leaders who were called caudillos: a. were those most sympathetic to the old regimes b. ruled without the cooperation of the church c. were personalist leaders who held power without constitutional sanction d. were chosen by popular election 12. The similarities between Venezuelan leader Jose Antonio Paez and American Andrew Jackson: a. that both were successful military leaders b. that both had uneducated and poor beginnings c. that both challenged constitutional limits to their power d. all of the above 13. Low literacy levels and a weak constitutional tradition in Latin America resulted in: a. distrust of personalist leaders b. few checks on ambitious politicians c. few dictatorships d. an almost nonexistent judiciary
14. The issue of slavery in the United States: a. was never even addressed in the Constitution b. was more a political than a regional issue c. was not a divisive issue d. became a bigger issue with territorial expansion 15. Unlike other American revolutions of the period, the failure of the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War was due in part to: a. seventy-five years of stability of the existing national government b. a counterrevolution within the Confederate government c. the support of the church for the existing government d. none of the above 16. A French army was driven out of Mexico by: a. Benito Juarez b. Simon Bolivar c. Tupac Amaru II d. Emperor Maximilian 17. To settle Texas in northeastern Mexico, the Mexican government: a. built a railroad to access the area b. gave the land free to all its citizens c. first moved out all Spanish people d. invited Americans to come live there 18. The U.S. was with Mexico in 1846 was provoked by: a. the U.S. annexation of California b. the U.S. invasion of Veracruz c. the United States making Texas a state in 1845 d. U.S. support for Maximilian 19. With the end of colonialism in the Americas, Amerindians: a. were no longer exploited b. lost the protection of the colonial powers c. could once again settle on their own lands d. could control their own destinies 20. The Plains Indians successfully resisted U.S. expansion in part because they: a. had become skilled users of horses and firearms b. had resistance to diseases which the settlers did not have c. used a legal system to their advantage d. were far superior warriors 21. Plains Indian women had lost prestige because: a. they were the childbearers for their people b. they were more sympathetic to Euro-Americans
c. they were not warriors d. the horse permitted greater reliance on buffalo hunting 22. One advantage that Amerindians in Argentina and Chile had in checking settlers’ southern expansion was an unlimited food supply from: a. guinea pigs b. herds of wild cattle c. buffalo d. the goats and sheep of the pampas 23. The Maya rose in rebellion when: a. Mexico was at war with the United States b. The Mexicans wanted to put them on reservations c. Mexico was controlled by the Archduke Maximilian d. their religion was outlawed 24. The Paraguayan War helped end slavery in Brazil because large numbers of slaves: a. joined the Brazilian army in exchange for freedom b. were liberated by foreign armies c. temporarily controlled the Brazilian government d. petitioned the pope to mediate for them 25. The largest numbers of new arrivals in the Americas during the colonial period were: a. British b. Africans c. Irish d. Spanish 26. During the 19th Century, the majority of immigrants to the western hemisphere were from: a. Asia b. Africa c. Europe d. Australia 27. Canada decided to reduce Asian immigration in the 1880s by: a. signing the Chinese Exclusion Act b. enacting literacy and citizenship tests c. using a quota system d. imposing a head tax on Chinese immigration 28. The Women’s Rights Convention was held in: a. Paterson, New Jersey b. Seneca Falls, New York
c. Toronto, Canada d. Mexico City, Mexico 29. Working class women transformed gender relations by: a. direct involvement in reform movements b. working outside the home c. armed revolution d. copying the tactics of the Jacobins in the French Revolution 30. The female suffrage movement in the United States expanded rapidly when: a. European women earned the right to vote b. American voting laws increasingly excluded women c. Enlightenment thought influenced U.S. women d. American women participated in the abolitionist movement 31. The cattle industry in Argentina grew rapidly at the end of the nineteenth century: a. when refrigeration became available b. because of the steam ship c. with the invention of barbed wire d. all of the above 32. Much of Cuba’s dense forest was cut for: a. merchant and naval shipbuilding b. cattle-grazing land c. expanding sugar production d. charcoal for new industries 33. When confronted with the choice of economic growth or environmental protection: a. western hemisphere nations tried to adopt a balanced policy b. some nations chose growth over protection c. all nations chose environmental protection d. all nations chose economic growth
Chapter 25 Pre-Test Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1. Latin American revolutions were initially triggered by: a. increased tax money flowing back to Europe b. suppression of the church in Latin America c. Napoleon’s invasions of Spain and Portugal d. confiscation of all colonial lands 2. The Junta Central was a political body established: a. to organize the overthrow of colonial powers b. in Mexico to maintain European domination c. to coordinate many diverse revolutionary groups d. to rule Spain during French occupation 3. The overthrow of the Venezuelan, Mexican, and Bolivian colonial governments was initially led by: a. the uneducated peasantry b. local elites c. local church leaders d. slaves 4. In his revolution, Simon Bolivar was aided by: a. enlisting English veterans to his cause b. a military revolt in Spain c. both a and b d. none of the above 5. In 1810, Spain’s richest and most populous American colony was: a. Venezuela b. Brazil c. Peru d. Mexico 6. With the king of Spain imprisoned by the French, the authority of Spanish colonial officials was in reality based on: a. brute force b. popular sovereignty c. reason and compromise d. anarchy
7. The Mexican revolutionaries Jose Maria Morelos and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla were: a. lawyers b. priests c. military officers d. labor union organizers 8. After declaring independence in 1822, Brazil’s new government was a: a. constitutional republic b. constitutional monarchy c. dictatorship d. military dictatorship 9. Emperor Pedro I of Brazil: a. signed a treaty with Great Britain to end participation in the slave trade b. secretly favored slavery and sought to protect the slave-owning class c. had his popular son, Pedro II, murdered to protect his interests in the throne d. all of the above 10. One area most Latin American governments had difficulty with was: a. deciding whether the church would retain religious monopoly and control of education as in the colonial era b. deciding how many branches of government to have c. the relationship they would have with Europe d. how to keep the elites from taking over 11. In Latin America, leaders who were called caudillos: a. were those most sympathetic to the old regimes b. ruled without the cooperation of the church c. were personalist leaders who held power without constitutional sanction d. were chosen by popular election 12. The similarities between Venezuelan leader Jose Antonio Paez and American Andrew Jackson: a. that both were successful military leaders b. that both had uneducated and poor beginnings c. that both challenged constitutional limits to their power d. all of the above 13. Low literacy levels and a weak constitutional tradition in Latin America resulted in: a. distrust of personalist leaders b. few checks on ambitious politicians c. few dictatorships d. an almost nonexistent judiciary
14. The issue of slavery in the United States: a. was never even addressed in the Constitution b. was more a political than a regional issue c. was not a divisive issue d. became a bigger issue with territorial expansion 15. Unlike other American revolutions of the period, the failure of the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War was due in part to: a. seventy-five years of stability of the existing national government b. a counterrevolution within the Confederate government c. the support of the church for the existing government d. none of the above 16. A French army was driven out of Mexico by: a. Benito Juarez b. Simon Bolivar c. Tupac Amaru II d. Emperor Maximilian 17. To settle Texas in northeastern Mexico, the Mexican government: a. built a railroad to access the area b. gave the land free to all its citizens c. first moved out all Spanish people d. invited Americans to come live there 18. The U.S. was with Mexico in 1846 was provoked by: a. the U.S. annexation of California b. the U.S. invasion of Veracruz c. the United States making Texas a state in 1845 d. U.S. support for Maximilian 19. With the end of colonialism in the Americas, Amerindians: a. were no longer exploited b. lost the protection of the colonial powers c. could once again settle on their own lands d. could control their own destinies 20. The Plains Indians successfully resisted U.S. expansion in part because they: a. had become skilled users of horses and firearms b. had resistance to diseases which the settlers did not have c. used a legal system to their advantage d. were far superior warriors 21. Plains Indian women had lost prestige because: a. they were the childbearers for their people b. they were more sympathetic to Euro-Americans
c. they were not warriors d. the horse permitted greater reliance on buffalo hunting 22. One advantage that Amerindians in Argentina and Chile had in checking settlers’ southern expansion was an unlimited food supply from: a. guinea pigs b. herds of wild cattle c. buffalo d. the goats and sheep of the pampas 23. The Maya rose in rebellion when: a. Mexico was at war with the United States b. The Mexicans wanted to put them on reservations c. Mexico was controlled by the Archduke Maximilian d. their religion was outlawed 24. The Paraguayan War helped end slavery in Brazil because large numbers of slaves: a. joined the Brazilian army in exchange for freedom b. were liberated by foreign armies c. temporarily controlled the Brazilian government d. petitioned the pope to mediate for them 25. The largest numbers of new arrivals in the Americas during the colonial period were: a. British b. Africans c. Irish d. Spanish 26. During the 19th Century, the majority of immigrants to the western hemisphere were from: a. Asia b. Africa c. Europe d. Australia 27. Canada decided to reduce Asian immigration in the 1880s by: a. signing the Chinese Exclusion Act b. enacting literacy and citizenship tests c. using a quota system d. imposing a head tax on Chinese immigration 28. The Women’s Rights Convention was held in: a. Paterson, New Jersey b. Seneca Falls, New York
c. Toronto, Canada d. Mexico City, Mexico 29. Working class women transformed gender relations by: a. direct involvement in reform movements b. working outside the home c. armed revolution d. copying the tactics of the Jacobins in the French Revolution 30. The female suffrage movement in the United States expanded rapidly when: a. European women earned the right to vote b. American voting laws increasingly excluded women c. Enlightenment thought influenced U.S. women d. American women participated in the abolitionist movement 31. The cattle industry in Argentina grew rapidly at the end of the nineteenth century: a. when refrigeration became available b. because of the steam ship c. with the invention of barbed wire d. all of the above 32. Much of Cuba’s dense forest was cut for: a. merchant and naval shipbuilding b. cattle-grazing land c. expanding sugar production d. charcoal for new industries 33. When confronted with the choice of economic growth or environmental protection: a. western hemisphere nations tried to adopt a balanced policy b. some nations chose growth over protection c. all nations chose environmental protection d. all nations chose economic growth
