Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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This famous priest inspired the
Mexican people to revolt against Spain. His revolution was unsuccessful but he has become an
important Mexican hero.
a. | Pancho
Villa | c. | Simon
Bolivar | b. | Padre Miguel Hidaldo | d. | Gustoavo Dudemal |
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Simon Bolivar, like the people
who founded the United States, believed in the ideas of the philosophy called,
........
a. | Communism | c. | the Enlightenment | b. | monarchy | d. | Socialism |
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Haiti was the first
“Black” country in the Americans to win their independence. The leader who made this
independence happen was named..........
a. | Simon
Bolivar | c. | Napoleon
II | b. | Jean-Jacques
Dessalines | d. | Voltaire |
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After the defeat of Miguel
Hidalgo and Jose Morelos the Mexican Creoles revolted and ........
a. | declared Mexico independent in
1821 | c. | declared war on the United
States | b. | declared Mexico a colony of Spain | d. | declared Napoleon III king of
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The man in the picture is Padre
Miguel Hidalgo. He is crowning this woman and declaring her free and independent. He is also breaking
the chains that bound (tied) her to Spain. Who does the woman in the picture
symbolize?
a. | women of the
world | c. | Mexico | b. | women gaining the right to vote | d. | the United States |
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6.
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Who is this
man?
a. | King Louis
Phillipe | c. | Tousaint
L’Ouerture | b. | Father Hidalgo | d. | Simon Bolivar |
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This man fought and declared
Saint Domingue a country in 1804. It was the first black colony to win independence in the
Americas’. Saint Dominque changed its name to.......
a. | Bolivia | c. | Columbia | b. | Argentina | d. | Haiti |
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Which philosophy inspired the
early leaders in the United States and South America to break away from colonial rule and declare
themselves free and independent states?
a. | Socialism | c. | Monarchy | b. | Enlightenment | d. | Marxism |
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Matching
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a. | creoles | g. | Bernardo O'Higgins | b. | Simón Bolívar | h. | Saint-Domingue | c. | mestizos | i. | peninsulares | d. | José María Morelos | j. | Toussaint L'Ouverture | e. | mulattos | k. | José de San Martín | f. | Miguel Hidalgo | l. | Santo Domingo |
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9.
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He was a priest who issued
the Grito de Dolores, a call for a peasant rebellion in Mexico
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10.
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This was the name of the
French third of the island of Hispaniola
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11.
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He led a slave revolt that
ended slavery on the island of Hispaniola.
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12.
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This term was used in Latin
America to describe people of mixed European and Indian ancestry
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13.
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This term was used in Latin
America to describe Latin Americans born in Spain
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14.
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He was known as
Libertador.
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15.
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After winning independence for
Argentina and Chile, he gave up command of his army.
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16.
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This term was used in Latin
America to describe people of mixed European and African
ancestry
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He was a priest who was also
a skillful military leader
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18.
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He led his forces against the
Spanish army in the Battle of Ayacucho, the last major battle in the Spanish colonies' war for
independence.
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19.
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This term was used in Latin
America to describe Spaniards born in Latin America
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20.
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This term names the people at
the top of Spanish American society
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