Latin America History Practice Test

What was one of the reasons for European expansion into the New World?

• They wanted gold to help improve their GDP

• They wanted to colonize land to defeat Napoleon

• Cheap and steadily available labor force to work in sugar cane plantations and haciendas

• Europeans wanted to convert indigenous populations into Christians

What decimated the indigenous populations in South America during the European expansion to the new World?

• Too many indigenous populations were being sold into slavery

• The indigenous populations did not have immunities to European diseases such as small pox.

• The indigenous populations were forced to fight in the French and Indian War

• The indigenous populations had more deaths than births

The importation of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as what?

• Columbian Exchange

• Portuguese Revolution

• Spanish Revolution

• Transatlantic Slave trade

Why did the Spanish and Portuguese bring black Africans to the Americans?

• The indigenous populations of Latin America were decimated (destroyed) due to disease

• Their religion required them to convert all immigrants

• It was much faster to acquire black Africans than indigenous people

• They wanted to increase the standard of living of black Africans

What still prevails today in South American countries such as Cuba and Brazil form the African Slave Trade?

• Slavery still exists in many parts of South and Central America today

• Many of the haciendas that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today

• Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans which resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America today

• Many of the descendants form the Black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines

What religion did European explorers bring with them during the colonization of the New World?

• Catholicism (Christianity)

• Islam

• Judaism

• Mormonism

What is the official language of Brazil?

• English

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Russian

What was Fulgencio Batista's relationship with Cuba?

• He was the Prime Minister before Fidel Castro took control

• He was the Vice President before Fidel Castro took control

• He was the dictator before Fidel Castro took control

• He was the monarch before before Fidel Castro took control

Which is an example of Fidel Castro turning Cuba into a communist state?

• All people were made to worship one god

• Businesses,factories,and farmlands were property owned by the Government

• Citizens gained personal freedom and new liberties

• Citizens were given new property back that the U.S. previousl owned

What was one of the responses the United States to Fidel Castro's takeover?

• Placed tariffs on all sugar form Cuba

• Placed quotas on all tobacco imported from Cuba

• Placed an embargo on all goods from Cuba

• Sold all their Cuban stock to hurt Cuban GDP