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Chapter 06 Self-assessment
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The expansion of US influence in Latin America around the turn of the twentieth century was an exception to the general trend of receding colonial rule and "spheres of influence" throughout the world at this time.
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José Martí built a political coalition that included supporters of all of the following EXCEPT
Annexation of Cuba by the United States.
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Establishment of an independent Cuban Republic.
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A social revolution to redistribute land in Cuba.
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Restoration of slavery in Cuba.
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Before the USS Maine incident, opinion in the United States had tended to support the Cuban rebels against continued Spanish control of the island.
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In the Treaty of Paris, Spain ceded control of all of the following to the United States EXCEPT
Puerto Rico.
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Cuba.
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Panama.
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The Philippines.
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All of the following were instrumental in bringing about Gerardo Machado's ouster in Cuba EXCEPT
Professionals such as teachers, journalists, and university professors.
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The Independent Party of Color (Partido Independeniente de Color, PIC).
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Organized labor.
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The Cuban army.
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The proximate cause of the formulation of the Roosevelt Corollary was US anxiety that Latin Americans' debt problems would lead to British or German intervention in the Caribbean Basin.
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Which of the following is FALSE about the process that led to the building of the Panama Canal?
Once political obstacles were removed, Panama's favorable geography and environment made it preferable to Nicaragua for the canal project's route.
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The US government gradually supplanted British and French interests to gain sole control over the trans-isthmian canal project.
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The Panama Canal Zone was subject to US, not Panamanian, control.
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The canal project brought together US capital and engineering and public-health expertise with labor from China, South Asia, and across the Caribbean.
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Augusto César Sandino can best be described as
A Liberal politician who tried to leverage US support to become President of Nicaragua.
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A Conservative caudillo.
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The commander of the Nicaraguan National Guard.
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A Nicaraguan nationalist of peasant origin.
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All of the following contributed to the outbreak of the War of the Pacific EXCEPT
Peru's aspirations to replace its declining guano revenues.
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Bolivia's desire to derive greater tax revenue from mining concessions it had granted to foreign companies.
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US influence in the region.
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Mistreatment of Chilean mine workers.
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The ranchers and indigenous small farmers of the Huasteca region of Mexico initially welcomed and profited from the leasing of their lands to the foreign oil companies.
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In the early nineteenth century rubber trees grew only in the Amazon rainforest.
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The spread of football (soccer) in turn-of-the-century Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay was rooted in its popularity among all of the following groups EXCEPT
Urban elites
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Rural indigenous communities.
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British and other European expatriates and their children
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The immigrant and African-descended urban working classes
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Authors such as Dantes Bellegarde and Rafael Reyes argued that US interventions in Latin America were not only morally unjustified but also violations of international law.
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All of the following contributed to changing norms for urban Latin American women in the early twentieth century EXCEPT
The availability of new employment opportunities for educated women in public-school teaching, offices, communications, and sales.
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The rise of new urban social spaces such as sporting events, parks, and movie theaters.
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The influx of European and US fashions and customs through print and visual media, department stores, and music and dance.
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Changing attitudes of the Catholic Church toward marriage and family planning.
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Which of the following is NOT TRUE of both Colombia and Peru in the 1920s?
They saw an influx of US investment.
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Their economies diversified and prospered due to the expansion of new export products.
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Their governments lost popularity when they bowed to US pressure to balance their national budgets.
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Government spending improved infrastructure but also led to patronage and bureaucratic bloat.
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