Latin American Revolutions Quiz 2

6 September 2022
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Political instability in the emerging Latin American countries was due in part to
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conflicting views on government.
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What was the economy of Saint Dominique dependent upon? Check all that apply.
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-sugar plantations -enslaved Africans -strenuous manual labor -ruthless plantation owners
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Which best explains why some plantation owners punished enslaved persons?
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to keep them as helpless as possible
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Read the passage. The Africans transplanted to Saint Domingue remain in general indolent and idle, quarrelsome and talkative, and liars, and are addicted to stealing. Always given to the most absurd superstitions, there is nothing which does not frighten them more or less. β€” A Civilization That Perished: The Last Years of White Colonial Rule in Haiti, 1797 The passage shows that the author was most likely someone who was
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in support of slavery
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When Napoleon seized the Spanish throne and replaced it with a French king, criollos in Latin America
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believed the people should take control.
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The coup d'etats are most often
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very violent.
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The pie chart shows that the population of enslaved people in Saint Dominique was
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larger than the number of free whites and non-whites combined.
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Saint Dominique, a French colony in the Caribbean Sea where 100,000 slaves rebelled, became a country called
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Haiti
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General Toussaint L'Ouverture died in a __?__ prison in 1804, after leading the revolution in Haiti.
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French
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Who sparked the independence movement in Mexico?
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mestizos and American Indians