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Unit 3: 19th-century Spain (1814-1874)

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does "military coup" mean?

a)

A fight among generals

b)

A Pragmatic Sanction decreed by an absolute king

c)

A military revolt which aims to remove the government and replace it with a new form of government (or political regime sometimes)

d)

A person who rules when the monarch is a minor, or is absent of incapable of ruling.

2.

The Pragmatic Sanction of Ferdinand VII (1830) replaced .................... which excluded .................. from the line of succession

a)

Salic Law/ males

b)

Roman Law/ females

c)

Siete Partidas Law/ females

d)

Salic Law/ females

3.

A regent is...

a)

A heir to the throne

b)

A person who rules when the monarch is a minor, or is absent or incapable of ruling

c)

A Prime Minister

d)

A Member of the Parliament

4.

A cacique was...

a)

a person who ruled when the monarch was a minor, or was absent or incapable of ruling

b)

a person who defended the self-government of a region associated to other ones.

c)

a person who defended the submission of all regions to the government from the capital (Madrid)

d)

a person with economic or political power in a rural area, such as a landowner or local mayor.

5.

Moderates advocated for...

a)

Popular sovereignty

b)

Shared sovereignty

c)

Absolute monarchy

d)

Republic

6.

Progressives supported...

a)

Popular sovereignty and limited male suffrage, but with a lower property requirement

b)

Shared sovereignty and limited male suffrage, but with a lower property requirement

c)

Popular sovereignty and universal suffrage

d)

Popular sovereignty and a very limited male suffrage (censitary suffrage

7.

According to the Moderates, the Senate had to be elected by...

a)

Citizens

b)

The monarch

8.

Progressives accessed the power...

a)

Through elections

b)

Through royal appointment

c)

Through elections and royal appointment

d)

Through military coups

9.

Through expropriations, the State confiscated land belonging...

a)

just to the Church

b)

just to the nobility

c)

all the other possibilities

d)

just to the municipalities

10.

Along the expropriation process, after the owners received an amount of money in return, the State...

a)

sold the land at a public auction

b)

kept all the properties under its control

11.

One of the following periods is not an Isabel II's reign phase. Mark it

a)

Progressive Biennium

b)

Moderate Decade

c)

Liberal Union

d)

Liberal Triennium

12.

Just one of the following periods is a Ferdinand VII's reign phase. Mark it:

a)

Liberal Union

b)

Democratic Sexennium

c)

Absolutist Sexennium

d)

María Cristina of Bourbon's Regency

13.

Which of the following periods is a Democratic Sexennium one?

a)

Amadeo I's reign

b)

Moderate Decade

c)

Ominous Decade

d)

María Cristina of Bourbon's Regency

14.

The end and the peace of the 1st Carlist War was signed at the

a)

Jacobine Convention

b)

Girondine Convention

c)

Convention of Vergara

d)

Convention of Bayonne

15.

The Constitution of 1845 was

a)

Progressive

b)

Moderate

c)

Democratic

d)

Union (from Liberal Union)

16.

Mendizábal's expropriation (1836) was taken along the...

a)

María Cristina of Bourbon's Regency

b)

Moderate Decade

c)

Progressive Biennium

d)

Liberal Union

17.

Madoz's expropriation (1855) was taken along the...

a)

María Cristina of Bourbon's Regency

b)

Moderate Decade

c)

Progressive Biennium

d)

Liberal Union

18.

The Spanish Constitutions of 1837 and 1856 were both...

a)

Moderate

b)

Progressive

c)

Unionist

d)

Democratic

19.

One of the following measures was not taken under the Moderate Decade

a)

Guardia Civil

b)

Civil Code

c)

Constitution of 1845

d)

Colonial Wars (War of Morocco)

20.

Which of the following documents is considered to be the second Spanish Constitution, and a false one?

a)

The Constitution of 1812

b)

The Constitution of 1869

c)

The Estatuto Real of 1834

d)

The Constitution of 1845

21.

Which of the following documents is considered to be the most democratic from the 19th-century Spanish Constitutions?

a)

Constitution of 1845

b)

Constitution of 1869

c)

Constitution of 1856

d)

Estatuto Real

22.

Which 1869 Constitution 's article guaranteed the constitutional monarchy as a regime?

a)

Article 9

b)

Article 57

c)

Article 33

d)

Article 90

23.

Which of the following features belongs to Romanticism?

a)

Imitation of Roman and Greek sculpture

b)

Expression of emotions, fantasy and feelings

c)

The themes are very important: a) everyday life and b) history painting (less cultivated)

24.

Which of the following features belongs to Realism?

a)

Imitation of Roman and Greek sculpture

b)

Expression of emotions, fantasy and feelings

c)

The themes are very important: a) everyday life and b) history painting (less cultivated).

25.

Which of the following features belongs to Romanticism?

a)

Imitation of Roman and Greek sculpture

b)

Expression of emotions, fantasy and feelings

c)

The themes are very important: a) everyday life and b) history painting (less cultivated).

26.

Among the features of Realism, design and brushtroke...

a)

are very meticulous and studied

b)

are loose (especially the brushstroke, more important than design)

c)

are precise and detailed, but some painters evolve to a looser brushstroke (origin of Impressionism)

27.

The chronology of Realism is circa (around)...

a)

1760-1830

b)

1800-1850

c)

1848-1875

28.

A question about the Democratic Sexennium: Amadeo I of Savoy, constitutional King of Spain (1871-1873), was son of...

a)

Kaiser Wilhelm I of Prussia

b)

Kaiser Franz-Joseph of Austria

c)

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

d)

Queen Victoria of England

29.

The First Republic (1873-1874) faced many problems, such as...

a)

the alternation in power between Moderates and Progressives

b)

the second Carlist War

c)

expropriations

d)

revolts in Andalucia, Levante and Murcia

30.

However, the main problem was the divisions among the Republicans. They disagreed on the type (model) of republic they wanted:

a)

federal and centralised republic

b)

presidentialist or democratic republic