Mexico's Independence Quiz

Spain is in war debt due to what WAR?

• French and Indian WAR 
• Napoleonic War 
• American Revolution
• Mexico War

In what year did Mexico win its independence

• 1820
• 1821
• 1822
• 1823

Match the following

• Creoles

• Spaniards born in America

• Mestizos

• Spaniards born in Spain

• Peninsulares

• Lowest class system in New Spain

• Native Americans & African Americans

• People of mixed Spanish and Native 

  American heritage

  
  

What event marked the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence?

• The Battle of Dolores

• The Grito de Dolores

• The Mexican Independence Day

• Cinco de Mayo

Match the following

• marked the beginning of the Mexican War

• Grito de Dolores

• Mexican Constitution was drafted

• 1821

• Empresarios

• 1824

• Filibusters

• are people who received land grants

• Mexico won its independence from Spain

• person who wages an unofficial war on a country

What word means a "type of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws"?

• republic
• confederacy
• monarchy
• dictatorship

What are the main colors that appear in the Mexican flag?

• red, white, and blue
• green, orange, and white
• red, purple, and black
• NONE of these are correct

This piece of land was sold by France for $15 million, & DOUBLED the size of the U.S.

• FLORIDA

• LOUISIANA PURCHASE

• TEXAS TERRITORY

• MEXICO

Reasons colonists in New Spain/MEXICO were angry w/the Spanish government

3 correct answers

• Spanish king took money & property from the churches

• The best jobs went to government people

• Colonists were losing their jobs

• The colonists were happy with the king

What symbol was on the flag that Father Hidalgo carried as part of the Revolution?

• Serpent and Cactus

• Green, White and Red

• Quetzalcoatl

• Virgen de Guadalupe