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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through King Sugar and Other Agricultural Monarchs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.
(b) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.
(c) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.
(d) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.

2. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?
(a) They rebelled and drove the Spaniards away.
(b) They committed mass suicide.
(c) They poisoned the Spanish in great numbers.
(d) They ran away and resettled.

3. How much silver was retained in the Spanish economy from 1540-1550?
(a) Exactly one-fourth: the numbers are recorded with exact precision.
(b) Almost all: the silver stayed in Spain an made the country rich.
(c) Almost none: the silver went to pay Spain's debts to other countries.
(d) About half: the silver stimulated Spain's economy while also paying off the country's debt.

4. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.
(b) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.
(c) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(d) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.

5. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?
(a) It granted protection to the Indians.
(b) It allowed Portugal to teach the Indians religion.
(c) It allowed Portugal to occupy certain Latin American territories.
(d) It declared war on France for illegal occupation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

2. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?

3. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

4. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?

5. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

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