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Quiz T12/ Ln 1 (Mexican Revolution)

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.


The Mexican Revolution was a complex, protracted, and violent conflict that lasted for over a decade from (___-___)

a)

1915-1925

b)

1920-1930

c)

1900-1910

d)

1905-1915

e)

1910-1920

2.

By 1910, the dictator ___ ___ had ruled Mexico for almost 35 years, winning re-election as president again and again. He welcomed foreign investors who developed mines, built railroads and drilled for oil.

a)

Lázaro Cárdenas

b)

Francisco Villa

c)

Porfirio Díaz

d)

Venustiano Carranza

e)

Emiliano Zapata

3.

Who was the Mexican president that implemented land reforms and nationalized the oil industry in the 1930s?

a)

Porfirio Díaz

b)

Venustiano Carranza

c)

Francisco Villa

d)

Lázaro Cárdenas

e)

Emiliano Zapata

4.

In southern Mexico, ____ led a peasant revolt. The battle cry of these rebels was 'Tierra y Libertad', 'Land & Freedom"

a)

Lázaro Cárdenas

b)

Francisco Villa

c)

Porfirio Díaz

d)

Emiliano Zapata

e)

Venustiano Carranza

5.

The majority of Mexicans were ___ or Indian peasants who lived in desperate poverty. Most worked on haciendas, large plantations.

a)

landowners

b)

factory workers

c)

urban elites

d)

mestizos

e)

government officials

6.

_____became Mexico's president (1911) after Diaz resigned. He was assassinated a few years later by one of his generals, Victoriana Huerta, who ruled as a military dictator.

a)

Porfirio Diaz

b)

Victoriano Huerta

c)

Emiliano Zapata

d)

Venustiano Carranza

e)

Francisco I. Madero

7.

Which revolutionary leader was known for his role in the northern part of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution?

a)

Venustiano Carranza

b)

Porfirio Díaz

c)

Lázaro Cárdenas

d)

Francisco Poncho Villa

e)

Emiliano Zapata

8.

What was the primary goal of the Mexican Revolution that began in 1910?

a)

Military expansion

b)

Industrialization

c)

Religious freedom

d)

Land reform

e)

Foreign investment

9.

_____ means 'farmer' or 'peasant' in Spanish.

a)

agricultor

b)

ganadero

c)

vigilante

d)

campesino

e)

hortelano

10.

Which Mexican leader was known for his opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and later succeeded him as president?

a)

Victoriano Huerta

b)

Francisco I. Madero

c)

Lázaro Cárdenas

d)

Emiliano Zapata

e)

Venustiano Carranza

11.

________, a hard-riding rebel from the north, fought mostly for personal power but won the intense loyalty of his peasant followers. This leader formed an uneasy coalition with Zapata and Venustiano Carranza

a)

Carranza

b)

Madero

c)

Pancho Villa

d)

Zapata

e)

Obregón

12.

During the Mexican Civil War, Villa and Zapata broke with Carranza to form the _______ to fight against Carranza's Constitutionalist army. The United States and other foreign powers recognized the Carranza government, which drafted the Mexican Constitution of 1917.

a)

Liberation Army

b)

Campensinos

c)

Federal Army

d)

Adelitas

e)

Conventionist Army

13.

The ______ addressed three major issues: land, religion, and labor. It permitted the breakup of large estates, placed restrictions on foreigners owning land, and allowed nationalization, or government takeover, or natural resources. Church land was made the property of the nation. It set a minimum wage and protected the right of the workers to strike.

a)

National Labor Relations Act

b)

Mexican Constitution of 1917

c)

Mexican Constitution of 1824

d)

Land Reform Act of 1776

e)

Agrarian Reform Law of 1940

14.

During the revolution, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States twice sent troops to Mexico. In 1914, U.S. forces helped depose, remove, Huerta. In 1916, they tried to hunt down _____, whose raid into New Mexico had killed 16 Americans.

a)

Francisco Franco

b)

Emiliano Zapata

c)

Pancho Villa

d)

Hernán Cortés

e)

Diego Rivera

15.

_____ is a far-left political and militant group that currently controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico


a)

National Liberation Army (ELN)

b)

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

c)

Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)

d)

Chiapas Liberation Movement

e)

The Shining Path

16.

Which Mexican revolutionary leader was known for his advocacy of agrarian reform,the Plan de Ayala? He was assassinated in 1919.

a)

Alvaro Obregón

b)

Emiliano Zapata

c)

Venustiano Carranza

d)

Porfirio Díaz

e)

Francisco Villa

17.

What was the significance of the Plan of Ayala during the Mexican Revolution?

a)

It outlined the industrialization strategy for Mexico

b)

It was a peace treaty with the United States

c)

It was a call for foreign investment in Mexico

d)

It proposed the nationalization of the oil industry

e)

It was a manifesto for land reform and redistribution

18.

Who was the leader of the Constitutionalists during the Mexican Revolution, the side that gained control over the government?

a)

Emiliano Zapata

b)

Pancho Villa

c)

Francisco I. Madero

d)

Venustiano Carranza

e)

Porfirio Díaz

19.

  • _____called for the end of land reform in 1992, resulting in revival of the Zapatista movement and the Zapatistas declaring war on the government of Mexico in 1994.

a)

Salma Hayek

b)

An amendment of Article 27 of the Constitution

c)

Ernesto Zedillo

d)

The Zapatista Army

e)

The United States

20.

Zapata published the ______, which called for the continuation of the revolutionary struggle against Madero, whom he deemed a traitor. It explicitly called for agrarian reform.

a)

Plan de Ayala

b)

Madero's Reform Plan

c)

Revolutionary Agrarian Law

d)

Zapatista Manifesto

e)

Plan de San Luis Potosí

21.

  • The main principles of the ________ policy in 1938 were non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America and redefining the way North Americans perceive Latin Americans, both politically and racially

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Isolationist Policy

c)

Open Door Policy

d)

Good Neighbor Policy

e)

Roosevelt Corollary

22.

Who was the Mexican leader known for land reform and his role in the nationalization of the oil industry in the 1930s?

a)

Lázaro Cárdenas

b)

Venustiano Carranza

c)

Emiliano Zapata

d)

Porfirio Díaz

e)

Pancho VIlla

23.

In 1913, _____ took the presidency by military coup by deposing and assassinating President Madero . This man's regime was opposed by Zapata, Villa, and Venustiano Carranza. It was also opposed by United States, which occupied the strategic port of Veracruz.

a)

Emiliano Zapata

b)

Pancho Villa

c)

Francisco Madero

d)

Venustiano Carranza

e)

Victoriano Huerta

24.

  • ____ led a force of approx. 10,000 U.S. soldiers; mostly cavalry and horse artillery, across the Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.

a)

John J. Pershing

b)

George Patton

c)

Omar Bradley

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

e)

Douglas MacArthur

25.

The Mexican Constitution of 1917 limits the power of the Roman Catholic Church.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

  • ____ was a Mexican military general, inventor and politician. As a Constitutionalist general, he defeated an army led by Pancho Villa during the civil war. He served as the President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. He was re-elected to the presidency in 1928; but he was assassinated before he could take office

a)

Pancho Villa

b)

Emiliano Zapata

c)

Venustiano Carranza

d)

Lázaro Cárdenas

e)

Alvaro Obregón

27.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party held the Presidency and sometimes all the members of the Senate and the state governors; ruling as a _____ party for 71 years

a)

three-party state

b)

one-party state

c)

oligarchic

d)

bicameral

e)

democratic

28.

___ held power and controlled the presidency of Mexico for 71 years from 1929 to 2000 and from 2012 to 2018

a)

National Action Party (PAN)

b)

Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)

c)

Revolutionary Workers' Party (PTR)

d)

Green Party of Mexico (PVEM)

e)

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

29.

The era of the Good Neighbor Policy ended with the ramp-up of the _____in 1945, as the United States felt there was a greater need to protect the Western Hemisphere from Soviet influence

a)

New Deal

b)

Great Society

c)

Truman Doctrine

d)

Marshall Plan

e)

Cold War

30.

Francisco ______ became the president of Mexico in 1911 after Porfirio Diaz resigned under the threat of rebellion. He was murdered by one of his generals, Victoriano Huerta, two years later.

a)
Carranza
b)
Zapata
c)

Madero

d)
Huerta
e)
Obregón
31.

Mexico's Constitution (1917) permitted the breakup of large estates, placed restrictions on foreigners owning land, and allowed ________, or government takeover, of natural resources.

a)
nationalization
b)
privatization
c)
expropriation
d)
deregulation
e)
consolidation
32.

Approximately ____ people died has a result of conflict during the Mexican revolution that lasted from 1910 till 1920.

a)

500 thousand

b)

5 million

c)

750 thousand

d)

300 thousand

e)

1 million

33.

The United States adopted the "____ _______ Policy" under President Franklin Roosevelt in 1930s. As such, the United States agreed to stop interfering in the affairs of Latin American nations. This policy lasted until 1945.

a)

Laissez Faire

b)

Non-Intervention

c)

Western Hemisphere

d)
Latin American Accord
e)

Good Neighbor