1.Juana Azurduy de Padilla played an instrumental role in the establishment of the nation of ________.
Mexico
Paraguay
Bolivia
Ecuador
2.By 1800, the viceroyalty of La Plata, with the rising port of _________, had grown through contraband trade with Great Britain.
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Caracas
Valparaiso
3.José de San Martín trained the Army of the _______ and, with this army, liberated Chile from royalist forces in 1818.
Incas
Quechuas
Creoles
Andes
4.Simón Bolívar joined the junta of _________ and, along with several other juntas declared their independence in 1811.
Panama
Jamaica
Quito
Caracas
5.Simón Bolívar came from _______ in what is today Venezuela.
An Amerindian farming family.
A wealthy Creole plantation family.
A mulatto family of craftspeople.
An urban free black family.
6.Brazil’s main export crop became _______ in the 1830s and 1940s.
Sugar
Rubber
Corn
Coffee
7.Gran Colombia was divided in 1831 into its component parts, which included all of the following except:
Peru
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador
8.In 1824, what type of government did Mexico develop after the failure of Agustín Iturbide’s empire?
Monarchy
Republic
Oligarchy
Theocracy
9.Mexico refused to recognize Texan national independence, and the state of Texas entered the United States in ___________.
1836
1861
1845
1853
10.The first Amerindian to accede to the office of President of Mexico was:
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Agustín de Iturbide
José Balmaceda
Benito Juárez
11.The Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, June 19, 1867, was painted by __________.
Édouard Manet
Eugène Delacroix
Pancho Villa
Venustiano Carranza
12.Porfirio Díaz dominated the Mexican government between 1876 and 1880, and again between 1884 and ________.
1891
1911
1901
1915
14.In 1822, __________ proclaimed Brazil an independent kingdom.
Pedro II
João VI
Isabel
Pedro I
15.José Antonio Aponte, head of a Yoruba confraternity (cabilde) in __________, led an abortive revolt against Spanish control in 1812.
Havana
Bahia
Mexico City
Montevideo
16.Slavery ended in Brazil in _________.
1865
1829
1845
1888
19.Which country took advantage of the American Civil War to place their own ruler over Mexico in 1862?
Prussia
Great Britain
France
Russia
20.Between 1850 and 1900 the standard of living improved in Latin America due to:
Industrialization
Growth of domestic grain markets
Export-led growth
Government tax reforms
21.Refer to Map 23.4. Which was not a location for Indian migrants in the nineteenth century?
The United States
South Africa
Fiji
Kenya
1.Among other provisions, the Treaty of Shimonoseki:
Imposed a crushing indemnity, payable by the Japanese to the Qing.
Allowed the Japanese to annex Taiwan.
Made Korea an independent state, and buffer zone between Japan and China.
Was designed to be a temporary armistice, and war resumed the following year.
2.A ________ sect called the White Lotus sparked a rebellion against the Qing soon after the Qianlong emperor stepped down from his throne in 1795.
Confucian
Ming
Buddhist
Manchu
3.Whose monopoly on trade with China ended in 1833?
The Dutch East India Company
The American Far East Company
The French Orient Company
The British East India Company
4.After blockading the port of ________ and withdrawing Chinese personnel from Western firms, Lin Zexu was able to confiscate 20000 chests of opium from dealers
Canton
Macao
Shanghai
Hong Kong
6.The ________ Rebellion, led by Hong Xiuquan and his Christian-influenced declarations, began in 1851.
Arrow
Qingdao
Taiping
Tonghak
7.After he had __________ and suffered a nervous breakdown, Hong Xiuquan came to believe that he was Christ's younger brother.
Overdosed on morphine
Converted to Catholicism
Helped Lin Zexu destroy the “foreign mud”
Failed his civil service examination for the third time
8.The French, who considered themselves as ______, joined with the British in a war to force a new treaty upon the Chinese government in Beijing.
Principal upholders of the notion of a “civilizing mission”
Promoters of missionary activity in the region
Trustees of the vision of world unity that had animated Napoleon
The best and most lucrative purveyors of opium
9.With the ascension of the infant Guangxu as emperor in 1874 came the regency of Empress Dowager _________.
Wu
Cixi
Mu
Mao
10.In 1899, _________, the US secretary of state, circulated a note suggesting that all powers remain committed to an “open door” to trade in China.
Henry Adams
Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt
John Hay
11.An anti-Qing and anti-foreign group calling itself the Society of the _________ Fists was referred to as “Boxers” by the foreign community in China
Subaltern
Eastern
Harmonious
Victorious
13.In April ________ the new Emperor Meiji issued a “charter oath” in which he renounced, at least officially, the restrictive measures of the past.
1868
1854
1885
1905
14.______ was the name given to the group of advisors to the Japanese emperor who sought to build up the state to protect against foreign intrusion.
Zhongxue wei ti
Self-Strengthening Movement
Genro
Sonno joi
15.Taking the slogan Sonno joi (“Honor the emperor, ________”), a movement challenged the shogunate and forced the Tokugawa to capitulate in 1867.
Despite his young age
The power of the rising sun
The dawn of a new day for Japan
Expel the barbarian
16.The most prominent of the ___________, which emerged in the 1860s, was Shenbao.
Chinese-language newspapers
Chinese-language novels
Scientific journals
Protestant missionary tracts
17.In Japan, government encouragement of the cooperation of finance and industrial elites led to the formation of _________.
Genro
Unions
Zaibatsu
Trade confederations
18.All of the rights of Japanese subjects set out in the Meiji Constitution's 15 articles are:
Applicable to members of the royal family only.
Enshrined in the notion that free speech is always to be allowed.
Limited to those who pledge to worship the Meiji Emperor as a god.
Qualified by such praises as “unless provided by law”.
19.The Meiji Constitution sought to preserve the essential traditions of ____________.
The Shinto religion.
Confucian society.
The samurai elites.
Buddhist society.
20.The culmination of the trend to incorporate Western models into the Japanese _____________ was Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (1914).
Theater
Newspaper
Novel
Epic poem
21.See Map 24.4. The expansion of Japanese influence into __________ would lead to a conflict with Russia in the early twentieth century.
Manchuria
Korea
Mongolia
Shandong