Revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Question 1

The Napoleonic Wars in Europe prompted which group to declare independence in Spanish Latin America?

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criollos

Question 2

African enslaved persons outnumbered free people 10 to 1 in Saint Domingue, which led to

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a massive and successful uprising.

Question 3

Look at the chart.

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larger than the number of free Whites and people of color combined.

Question 4

Who sparked the independence movement in Mexico?

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criollos and Indigenous people

Question 5

What was a direct result of the uprising in Haiti?

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All enslaved people on the island were freed by the rebels.

Question 6

Political instability in the emerging Latin American countries was due in part to

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conflicting views on government.

Question 7

The coup d’etats are most often

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very violent.

Question 8

Read the passage.I declare to you to re-establish slavery would be to attempt the impossible: we have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it.Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1797

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rather die than go back to being enslaved.

Question 9

Brazil’s road to independence was different from that of its Latin American neighbors in that

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criollos signed a petition and asked the king’s son, Don Pedro, to rule.

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