Khan Academy/NBC Quiz- Latin American Independence movements

Before the era of the Latin American revolutions, the most prominent European power in South America was?

• The Spanish

• The French

• The Portugues

• The English

This European country controlled Brazil prior to the era of Latin American revolutions?

• Spain

• Ecuador

• Portugal

• France

Unlike America and Haiti, South American countries were never able to gain their independence from Spain

• True

• False

From 1791 and 1804, _______ lead the slave revolt against French control eventually establishing Haiti as an independent country

• Simon Bolivar

• Nelson Mandela

• Charles Leclerc

• Toussaint Louverture

From 1807 to 1830, you have a series of revolutions in Latin America, many of which were led by _______

• Nelson Mandela

• Simon Bolivar

• Toussaint Louverture

• Charles Leclerc

In the context of Latin America the term Creole means?

• People born of Native American and European descent

• People born of African and European descent

• Someone mostly of Spanish descent who was born in the New World

• People born of African descent

Bolivia was named after

• Toussaint Louverture

• Simon Bolivar

• Juana Nepomucena Bolívar

• Juan Vicente Bolívar

Simon Bolivar plays an active role in achieving independence from Spain for Venezuela, what will eventually be Columbia and Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

• True

• False

Why did the Latin American revolutions happen at roughly the same time?

• Ideas of the enlightenment

• Ideas of the scientific revolution

• Ideas of the renaissance

• Ideas of the reformation

The Haitian revolution was inspired by

• The Revolutions in South America

• The Revolutions in Russia

• The French Revolution

• The Canadian Revolutions