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WorksheetsReview: Independence of Quito & Colonial Class System
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
1. Spanish American society had a pyramidal structure with a small number of ________________________.
A) black people
B) Caribbean people
C) Spaniards at the top
D) mixed-race people
2. The Independence of Ecuador began in __________________.
our capital city, Quito
1808 during the throne of Napoleon
the Local Juntas
10 August 1809
3. _________________ were Spaniards born in Spain.
A) Criollos
B) Mestizos
C) Peninsulares
D) Mulatos
4. In Quito a few citizens followed the lead of the Spanish by establishing their own ____________________.
A) Junta
B) power and Junta
C) power
D) regions
5. Members of the intermediate racial groups were called _______________.
A) mestizos
B) castas
C) criollos
D) mulatos
6. On 10 August 1809 were the _____________ on which the fight for Ecuador's Independence was formed
A) war and growth
B) foundation
C) war
D) growth
7. Indians were captured and enslaved on the ______________ islands.
A) African
B) Spaniard
C) American
D) Caribbean
8. King Ferdinand VII of Spain was deposed of his throne in 1808 by _________________ after he invaded Spain.
A) Simon Bolivar
B) Pizarro
C) Napoleon
D) French
9. Peninsulares ______________ into creole families.
A) ruled
B) married
C) organized
D) worked
10. The ______________ of Quito took power over the city and displaced the representatives of Joseph Bonaparte.
A) rebels
B) Spaniards
C) indigenous
D) local residents
11. Caste and class structure in Colonial Spanish America referred to __________________________.
A) black people
B) white people
C) mixed-race people
D) black and white people
12. Rebels lacked the support of other local residents and power over Quito was taken back ____________________.
A) by Spaniards
B) by French
C) by indigenous
D) by citizens
13. The Battle of Pichincha was on _________________________.
A) 24 May 1821
B) 24 May 1826
C) 24 May 1820
D) 24 May 1822
14. Criollos were born from ______________ parents.
A) Indian
B) Spanish and Indian
C) Spanish
D) black and white
15. Colonial class structure comprised the ____________ of power and social status.
A) hierarchy
B) ambition
C) ambition and hierarchy
D) interests
