WorksheetsLatin American Revolution Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
How is class structure organized in Latin America?
Ethnicity (race)
Wealth
Age
Merit (Good works)
Peninsulares and Creoles were the top 2 social classes in Latin America. Why?
Both classes were elected by the people
Both had some Spanish ancestry
Both classes were specifically chosen by the monarch to rule
Both were full blooded Spanish
European + Indigenous American = ?
Which of the following was NOT involved in Mexican independence?
Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon
Jose de San Martin
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Napoleon
Indigenous American
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal..." is an example of what?
Social Inequality
Nationalism
Unpopular methods of rule
Enlightenment Ideas
___ was an Argentinian who helped free southern South America, leading to independent Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
Simon Bolivar
Jose de San Martin
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Who is known as the father of Mexican independence?
Which Enlightenment thinker's philosophy about natural rights would be influential in the American, French & Latin American revolutions?
Thomas Hobbes
Montesquieu
John Locke
Voltaire
Which country wanted independence partly because Spain failed to defend them against the British?
Argentina
Venezuela
Haiti
Brazil
Which country declared its independence from Portugal after King Joao left and his reforms were going to be reversed?
Mexico
Argentina
Peru
Brazil
Read the excerpt of the History.com article below, then answer the question:
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launches the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores.” The revolutionary tract, so-named because it was publicly read by Hidalgo in the town of Dolores, called for the end of 300 years of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land and racial equality. Thousands of Indians and mestizos flocked to Hidalgo’s banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and soon the peasant army was on the march to Mexico City.
Which of the following is NOT a cause of Mexican independence introduced by Father Hidalgo?
Redistribution of land
Racial equality
End Spanish rule of 300 years
To gain the Creoles more rights over indigenous people
