Quiz #5

1. Most of Central America fell under…

- Nicaragua

2. The term “Latin America”…

- The French who wanted to make their cultural…

3. Who was first fully indigenous governor of a Mexican state?

- Benito Juarez

4. In addition to attacking church landholdings…

- It threatened the communal

5. The “Golden Law”

- The immediate abolition of slavery

6. What did progress for

- Embracing materialism even

7. What nineteenth century technologies revolutionized…

- All of the answers are correct

8. The indigenous population of Chile

- Isolated in the southern part of the country

9. According to many liberals

- Racial mixing

10. The Slogan “to govern is to populate”

- Encouraging immigration

Quiz #6

11. Why were some Latin American “Banana Republics”

- They were dominated by foreign-owned banana corporations

12. To which region or country did the majority

- The southern cone countries

13. When did Cuba gain its independence

- 1898

14. The Platt amendment

 - Giving the United States the unilateral right…
15. US leaders justified interventions
- All

16. The term “neocolonial”

- 1880-1930

17. Which of the following is true regarding the Roosevelt corollary

- It justified the disciplining…

18. Which statement best describes oligarchies

- Control of narrow ruling class

19. Who were the prime beneficiaries of Latin America’s export boom
- Large landowners

20. Which is true about peasants as wage laborers

- They had less time and space to grow their own food

Quiz #7

21. To what does “the Slaughter”

- A government massacre

22. FDR good neighbor policy

- It renounced US military intervention

23. “may be a bastard, but he’s our bastard”

- That it was better to support

24. Fulgencio Batista (Cuba)

- He was willing to accomodate

25. The Brazilian politician Getulio Vargas

- He was pragmatic nationalist

26. Best description of populist

- Nationalist leader who

27. Nationalists tend to emphasize

- The distinctive racial heritage

28. The rebellion led by Emiliano Zapata

- Indigenous peasants seeking land reform
 29. In groups vying for control
- The constitutionalists

30. Mexican constitution of 1917

- Protect the wealth of the catholic church

Quiz #8

31. LATAM disenchanted with US after WWII?

- Western Europe received

32. How did the United States Dominate

- By supporting a block of dictator

33. Why did the united states tend to support

- All are correct

34. How did LATAM populist win elections

- By communicating widely with masses

35. Decade of spring

- The successive democratic

36. Nixon → Caracas

- Angry demonstrators nearly overturned his motorcade

37. 1954 Caracas declaration state

- Marxism was inherently alien

38. Why is the bay of pigs in Cuba

- It is where the CIA proxy forces

39. Cuban revolution was started

- A group of 82 Cuban revolutionaries

40. why was Marxism appealing

- it provided structural analysis of why Latin America

Quiz #9

41. why did revolutions erupt in central America

- most of the population remained mired in poverty
 42. according to the US cold war national
- to repress revolutionary organizers

43. why did the US military use the

- to offer counterintelligence

44. in Guatemala, the pentagon

- herding peasants into model villages

45. which of the following ped up to the Chilean

- The CIA backed opposition

46. What accurately depicts the brazilian military

- With the US backing,

47. La violencia
- Socioeconomic conflicts

48. Sandinistas
- Nicaraguan revolutionary group

49. Dirty war

- The period form late 1960s to 1980s

50. 1968 Tlatelolco massacre

- The Mexican army slaughtered students

Quiz #10

51. After the cold war ended

- Privatize state owned

52. What caused the LATAM debt crisis

- High world oil prices

53. In the 1990s IMF

- Reducing social spending

54. Since the neoliberal era

- 1/3 middle class, 2/3 poor

55. What has caused the increase in immigration to the US

- They are being extorted by MARAS
56. What do US opponents of LATAM advocate
- Construction of a wall

57. “New left turn”

- They have tried to harness capitalism for nationalist goals

58. Brazilian president LULA

- Metalworker

59. Which best describes

- It provided food subsidies

60. Fastest growing religious grow in LATAM

- Evangelical Protestantism