The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History (3rd Edition)
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| 664174747 | Latin American revolutions were initially triggered by | American and French revolutions | 0 | |
| 664174748 | Why was the Junta Central political body established? | To administer the areas the spanish patriots controlled | 1 | |
| 664174749 | The overthrow of the Venezuelan, Mexican, and Bolivian colonial governments was initially led by | land owning creoles | 2 | |
| 664174750 | In his revolution, Simón Bolívar was aided by all but which of the following? | a military revolt in Spain | 3 | |
| 664174751 | Simón Bolívar created Gran Colombia, which was to unify | Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador into one nation | 4 | |
| 664174752 | Jose de San Martin led Chilean and Argentine forces against | Spanish military forces | 5 | |
| 664174753 | Jose de San Martin's most effective troops were | former slaves | 6 | |
| 664174754 | In 1810, Spain's richest and most populous American colony was | Mexico | 7 | |
| 664174755 | With the king of Spain imprisoned by the French, the authority of Spanish colonial officials was in reality based on | brute force | 8 | |
| 664174756 | The Mexican revolutionaries José María Morelos and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla were | priests | 9 | |
| 664174757 | After Pedro I declared independence in 1822, Brazil's new government was a | constitutional monarchy | 10 | |
| 664174758 | Emperor Pedro I of Brazil published an article in which he called slavery | "a cancer eating away at Brazil" | 11 | |
| 664174759 | Canada's desire for political autonomy led to the "birthday of a new nationality" when Britain | agreed to the Confederation of 1867 | 12 | |
| 664174760 | One area most Latin American governments had difficulty with was | deciding whether the church would retain religious monopoly and control of education as in the colonial era | 13 | |
| 664174761 | In Latin America, who were "caudillos?" | personalist leaders who held power without constitutional sanction | 14 | |
| 664174762 | Which of the following were not among the similarities shared between Venezuelan leader Jose Antonio Paez and American Andrew Jackson? | They both rejected slavery as a socio-economic system | 15 | |
| 664174763 | Low literacy levels and a weak constitutional tradition in Latin America resulted in | few checks on ambitious politicians | 16 | |
| 664174764 | The unity of the United States was threatened by rivalries over issues such as | slavery | 17 | |
| 664174765 | The failure of the Confederacy in the United States Civil War was due to | 75 years of stability of the existing national government | 18 | |
| 664174766 | In the nineteenth century, Mexico lost all but which of the following? | Florida to the US | 19 | |
| 664174767 | To settle Texas in northeastern Mexico, the Mexican government made what decision? | invited Americans to come live there | 20 | |
| 664174768 | A French army was driven out of Mexico by | Benito Juarez | 21 | |
| 664174769 | With the end of colonialism in the Americas, Amerindians | lost the protection of the colonial powers | 22 | |
| 664174770 | The Shawnee leader who created a large organized alliance of Amerindians of the Ohio River Valley and Great Britain was | Tecumsah | 23 | |
| 664174771 | In 1830, the Indian Removal Act | forced the resettlement of Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw peoples | 24 | |
| 664174772 | The Plains Indians successfully resisted U.S. expansion in part because they | had become skilled users of horses and firearms | 25 | |
| 664174773 | Plains Indian women had lost prestige because | buffalo hunting reduced dependency on crop growing | 26 | |
| 664174774 | One advantage that Amerindians in Argentina and Chile had in checking settlers' southern expansion was? | herds of wild cattle | 27 | |
| 664174775 | The Mayan rebellion that occurred when Mexico was at war with the US was called the | Caste War | 28 | |
| 664174776 | People who wanted slavery to be outlawed were called | abolitionists | 29 | |
| 664174777 | An argument to end slavery was that it was | immoral and violated universal human rights | 30 | |
| 664174778 | How did the emancipation of slaves in the United States affect African-Americans? | "Jim Crow" laws that segregated public transportation, jobs, and schools | 31 | |
| 664174779 | How did the Paraguayan War help to end slavery in Brazil? | slaves joined the Brazilian army in exchange for freedom | 32 | |
| 664174780 | Why were Caribbean settlers not enthusiastic about independence from European imperial governments? | They feared slave revolts | 33 | |
| 664174781 | After the profitability of sugar plantations declined, the British | pushed for the end of slavery | 34 | |
| 664174782 | Slavery lasted longest on the Caribbean islands of | Cuba and Puerto Rico | 35 | |
| 664174783 | The largest numbers of new arrivals in the Americas during the colonial period were | African | 36 | |
| 664174784 | During the nineteenth century, the majority of immigrants to the western hemisphere were from | Europe | 37 | |
| 664174785 | Canada decided to reduce Asian immigration in the 1880s by | imposing a head tax on Chinese immigrants | 38 | |
| 664174786 | What ways & methods did the United States use to assimilate immigrants? | teaching patriotism and nationalism in school | 39 | |
| 664174787 | The modification of the language, customs, values, and behaviors of a group as a result of contact with people from another culture is called | acculturation | 40 | |
| 664174788 | The Women's Rights Convention was held in | Senecca Falls, New York | 41 | |
| 664174789 | Working-class women transformed gender relations by | working outside the home | 42 | |
| 664174790 | The only Western Hemisphere countries that earned similar individual income levels as Western Europe by 1900 were | The US, Canada, and Argentina | 43 | |
| 664174791 | What affect did the demand for metals such as copper, zinc and tin have? | a mining boom in the US, Chile, and Mexico | 44 | |
| 664174792 | Which of the following technological improvements did not change the Argentinian cattle industry at the end of the nineteenth century? | antibiotics | 45 | |
| 664174793 | The economic success of the US in the nineteenth century is suggested by | the US railroad network | 46 | |
| 664174794 | Much of Cuba's dense forest was cut for what purpose? | expanding sugar production | 47 | |
| 664174795 | Who was a naturalist who worked for environmental preservation? | John Muir | 48 | |
| 664174796 | When confronted with the choice of economic growth or environmental protection, how did nations respond? | all nations chose economic growth | 49 |
