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Chapter 05 Self-assessment
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While Conservatives had been in power in much of mid-nineteenth century Latin America, the Liberals tended to dominate in the last decades of the century.
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Social Darwinist theory placed Latin American elites of Iberian descent at the top of the global hierarchy of races.
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Which of the following was NOT a policy prescribed by Latin American adherents of positivism and social Darwinism?
Imposing social order by centralizing government and professionalizing the military and police.
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Attracting foreign investment, especially in infrastructure.
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Attracting immigrants from racially superior countries in Europe.
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Reducing exports in order to increase domestic consumption and living standards.
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Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the so-called "Conquest of the Desert" in Argentina?
It exemplifies the violent and coercive aspects of late-century liberalism, positivism, and social Darwinism.
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It paralleled contemporary events taking place in the interior of North America at the same time.
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It shows how new scientific environmental-management techniques improved crop yields.
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It was linked to the extension of the railroad into once-inaccessible frontier areas.
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Porfirio Díaz's economic policies included all of the following EXCEPT
Adopting the gold standard to stabilize the value of the Mexican peso.
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Using legal and tax instruments to reassure domestic and foreign investors.
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Encouraging domestic manufacturing through a protective tariff and tax and patent policies, making Mexico the most industrialized country in Latin America.
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Cracking down on corruption.
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Which of the following was NOT one of the major recipient countries of foreign investment in Latin America in this period?
Argentina.
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Uruguay.
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Peru.
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Chile.
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The rise of department stores in Latin America exemplifies all of the following EXCEPT
The spread of a consumer society from the elite to the middle classes.
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The persistence of traditional gender and social norms despite the pressures of modern capitalism.
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The growing divergence between the dynamic major cities and the undeveloped countryside.
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The adaptation of North Atlantic models by Latin Americans.
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In contrast to Porfirian Mexico, liberal Argentina allowed one foreign power to dominate its foreign-investment sector, making for a more unstable and vulnerable relationship.
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The consequences of banana cultivation in Honduras included all of the following EXCEPT
The deep involvement of the foreign fruit companies in Honduran politics.
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The construction of modern infrastructure connecting the banana enclaves to the coast.
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Deforestation, flooding, and biodiversity loss.
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Enriching the local landowning elite.
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The impact of the growth of railroads in Brazil included all of the following EXCEPT
Displacing small farmers from their land.
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The progressive weakening of the Brazilian state's power relative to foreign investors.
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Reorienting the dynamic heart of Brazilian slavery from the northeast to the south of the country.
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Spurring immigration from Japan to Brazil.
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Geographical factors made railroads as effective a means for transporting people and goods in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador as they were in other parts of Latin America.
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Which of the following statements is TRUE?
Peru's railroad network became the most profitable sector of an otherwise moribund economy.
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The railroad facilitated the cacao boom in Ecuador.
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The railroad allowed for the seamless export of Bolivian tin through Argentina.
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Railroads in the Andean nations could facilitate the export of goods, or promote national cohesion by bringing cities and provinces into easier contact with each other, but too seldom did both.
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Argentina saw large-scale immigration by all of the following groups EXCEPT
Eastern European Jews
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Syrians and Lebanese
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Japanese
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Italians.
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The concept of "scientific motherhood"
Led elite and middle-class women to seek greater education in practical subjects.
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Further restricted elite women to the home by denying them their supporting role in religious activities.
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Demonstrates positivists' commitment to gender equality.
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Reduced the number of illegitimate children by providing Latin American women their first access to modern birth control.
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Women's participation in public charity and philanthropic work threatened both their own honor and that of their husbands.
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