Deck 7: Neocolonialism

Question 1

Why do historians place the neocolonial period between 1880 and 1930?

A) because of the strong foreign influence
B) because the Spanish invaded Latin America
C) because Latin America was invaded by the United States
D) because national sentiments in Latin America peaked

Answer 1

because of the strong foreign influence

Question 2

What happened to the indigenous people of the Andes during the neocolonial period?

A) Nothing in particular happened to them.
B) They continued to work as administrators.
C) They lost their village lands.
D) They gained the right to vote.

Answer 2

They lost their village lands.

Question 3

What was the name of the most important banana company in Central America?

A) Banana Republic
B) Bananas for Export
C) United Exports
D) United Fruit

Answer 3

United Fruit

Question 4

Which crop dominated Cuban export by the early 1900s?

A) sugar
B) coffee
C) nitrates
D) bananas

Question 5

By 1910, the year that the Mexican Revolution started, what percentage of Mexicans owned land?

A) 15 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 3 percent
D) 10 percent

Question 6

Why were the large landowners the primary and direct beneficiaries of the export boom?

A) The values of their properties rose.
B) They had valuable slaves.
C) They occupied important administrative positions.
D) They also owned the factories.

Question 7

Where did 90 percent of all Latin American exports go during the neocolonial period?

A) the United States and Mexico
B) Caribbean and Asia
C) Africa and Europe
D) Europe and the United States

Question 8

Which of the following Mexican groups had the most to lose during the neocolonial period?

A) military personnel
B) people of indigenous descent
C) the upper class
D) the middle class

Question 9

Which were the two most urbanized and literate countries in Latin America?

A) Cuba and Mexico
B) Mexico and Peru
C) Argentina and Uruguay
D) Colombia and Venezuela

Question 10

Which crop dominated Brazilian export by the early 1900s?

A) cacao
B) sugar
C) tobacco
D) coffee

Question 11

Which of the following statements best describes the first couple of decades after the triumph of liberalism in Latin America?

A) Landowners and the urban middle-class prospered.
B) Landowners and the urban middle-class people prospered, but the life of the rural majority barely improved.
C) The middle class was destroyed.
D) Landowners lost most of their power and land.

Question 12

How did social hierarchies change in Latin America in terms of social hierarchies as a result of liberal policies?

A) Social hierarchical were never the same.
B) Hierarchical relations of race and class remained the norm.
C) Those at the bottom of the social ladder managed to climb to the top.
D) The middle class shrank.

Question 13

Throughout Latin America, what segments of a country's population controlled politics and wealth until the mid-1900s?

A) the urban elites
B) the rural elites
C) the indigenous people
D) the urban and rural elites share control in equal proportions

Question 14

What statement best describes "positivism"?

A) German doctrine that states humans are good in nature and, as such, nothing can go wrong in the future
B) French doctrine that recommends a belief in authoritarian medicine to achieve order and progress
C) Brazilian doctrine that advocates toward equality
D) English doctrine that maintains that positive thoughts can help you succeed in life

Question 15

Who owned most of the export companies in Central America?

A) Guatemala
B) Spain
C) England
D) the United States

Question 16

What statement best describes a typical Latin American city by the end of the nineteenth century?

A) Cities were mainly commercial, administrative, and service centers.
B) Nobody can really tell what cities looked like.
C) There were no cities in Latin America by the end of the century.
D) Cities were industrial centers.

Question 17

Why were so many nations in Central America referred to as "Banana Republics" by the early 1900s?

A) Entire cities were built in response to the demand for bananas.
B) They were republics with tropical climates.
C) They imported bananas.
D) Their diet was based on bananas.

Question 18

Who were the direct beneficiaries of the export boom?

A) the middle class
B) rural workers
C) the large landowners
D) merchants

Question 19

In terms of politics, what did the ruling elite advocate for?

A) They believed every citizen should have the possibility of running the country.
B) They believed in mass politics.
C) They believed in law and order where only the most qualified would govern.
D) They only wanted to get rich and did not care about politics.

Question 20

Why was the rural majority not able to influence political outcomes? Choose the best option.

A) Elections were fraudulent.
B) Only men could vote.
C) Elections were fraudulent, and they were limited by income and literacy requirements.
D) There was no such thing as elections.

Question 21

Which Latin American countries received the most immigrants during before the World War I?

A) Mexico and Peru
B) Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru
C) Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
D) Cuba and Haiti

Question 22

What was it that the oligarchies and dictatorships characteristic of this period offered to foreign investors?

A) money
B) stability
C) governmental positions
D) friendship

Question 23

What was the role of the United States in relation to Latin America during the entire nineteenth century?

A) The United States had a strong say on all the political and economic decisions Latin American countries made throughout the entire century.
B) The United States did not start influencing the region until the 1890s.
C) The United States and Latin America had always related on equal terms.
D) The United States was Latin America's strongest economic partner during the entire nineteenth century.

Question 24

What type of relationship did the United States and Cuba establish by signing the Platt Amendment?

A) Cuba was freed from Spain and this had nothing to do with the United States.
B) The United States had the right to determine who Cuba's future presidents would be without considering the vote of the Cuban people.
C) Cuba became a colony of the United States.
D) Cuba became a protectorate of the United States.

Question 25

What percentage of Mexican land did foreigners own by the end of the nineteenth century?

A) approximately 25 percent
B) roughly 50 percent
C) 75 percent
D) Foreign investment was prohibited.