Mexico

What statement about Spanish conquest of the Aztecs is accurate check all that apply

• The Spanish had vaccines to fight Aztec diseases

• The Spanish had superior Steel weapons and horses

• Native Americans had no natural immunity against European diseases

• Aztec alliances proved solid and difficult to defeat

• Spain made alliances with Aztec enemies

Organize the following

Groups:

(a) Aztec

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(b) Mayan

• Yucatan Peninsula

• Cortez defeats in 1521

• Central Mexico

• Civilization collapsed around 950AD

• Capital Tenochtitlan

This diagram depicts the system of

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Facism

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Peninsulares:

,

(b) Creoles:

,

(c) Mestizo:

• Born in Spain living in New world

• Mixed, Indian and white Spaniard

• White Spaniard born in the new world

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Mexican War Independence

,

(b) Mexican Revolution

• organized by creole priest Miguel Hidalgo

• Mixed, Indian and white Spaniard

• begins in 1910

• ends Spanish rule

• led by two culture icons Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata

• Civil war for political and economic reforms

what statement about Cinco de Mayo is correct

• is celebrated on May 5th and celebrates Mexican independence much like July 4th celebrates U. S. independence.

• is celebrated on September  16th and celebrates Mexican independence much like July 4th celebrates U. S. independence.

• is widely celebrated in Mexico to celebrate Mexico’s fending off a French conquest

• Is not widely celebrated in Mexico and more like celebrated in the U. S.

check all that apply to the results of the Mexican Revolution

• Mexico had a robust multipart system of government in the 20th century

• Mexico controlled by Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 1929 to 2000

• the government did manage to eliminate corruption of the political elite and economic development was robust

• some land redistribution took place but economic growth was not robust

The current President of Mexico is

• Andrés  Obrador

• Vicente Fox

• Enrique Peña Nieto

• Felipe Calderón

Factories built by U.S. companies in Mexico near the U.S. border, to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico.

• maquiladoras
• sweatshops
• outsourcing
• offshoring

The USMCA is a

• collective security organization

• free trade agreement

• supranational organization

• world peace organization