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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Augusto Cesar Sandino
a commonwealth
1999
the U.S.
2. few years later - came Luis Munoz Marin. It began as a nationalist patriot - but eventually changed his political philosophy by replacing the concept of the Commonwealth - ie domestic autonomy without international legal personality. Mu
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Jose Marti
Timber
muralists
3. At the next election the revolutionary triumph Jacobo Arbenz - who took office in 1951. The following year - his government passed the Agrarian Reform Law - which benefited hundreds of thousands of families.
Morazan
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
Poetry
4. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States
Jacobo Arbenz
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Albizu Campos
5. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Jose Marti
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Somoza family
6. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
manufacturing
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Markos Commandante
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
7. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
thirty-three (33)
continent
Treaty of Ancon
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
8. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne
The President
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The Mexican Revolution
One Hundred Years of Solitude
9. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Francisco Madero
Morazan
Platt Amendment
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
10. under President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz - happened a sad afternoon for Mexican university. In the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Tlatelolco - students marched in support of university autonomy and the rights of students were attacked at political and poli
One Hundred Years of Solitude
William Walker
Morazan
democratic Caesarism
11. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Poetry
Honduras
Balun Canan
muralists
12. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
13. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
realistic
Balun Canan
Columbia
14. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
the bogotazo
Andres Bello
Poetry
Benito Juarez
15. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Emiliano Zapata
Jose Santos Zelaya
16. Intellectuals and university students - allied with some army sergeants - deposed tyrant. One of these - Fulgencio Batista - stenographer of Staff - gave the final blow to the dictatorship. Opened in period that became the absolute ruler or the emine
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
realistic
One Hundred Years of Solitude
17. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Albizu Campos
muralists
Shoe
illiterate (cant read or write)
18. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
United Fruit Company
illiterate (cant read or write)
choteo
Puerto Rico
19. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Americanism
Caribbean
Poetry
Panama's independence
20. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Jose Marti
Columbia
Santa Anna
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
21. On the contrary - the crisis during the economic downturn accelerated the impoverishment and encouraged corruption. Hurricanes - which at that time were more intense and more destructive than usual - the situation worsened. In these circumstances - i
Albizu Campos
illiterate (cant read or write)
the bogotazo
Platt Amendment
22. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Costa Rica
an independent country
Tlatelolco
Indians
23. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
Borinquineers
thirty-three (33)
Manuel Antonio Noriega
24. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Andres Bello
Emiliano Zapata
Hatuey
25. Bogota
Athens of South America
Trujillo
manufacturing
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
26. Bolivar's dream was to unify Latin America in a large political entity. So in 1819 established in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) the Republic of Colombia - comprised of the territories that today belong to Venezuela - Colombia - Panama and Ecuador. T
Hatuey
Francisco Madero
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Gran Colombia
27. was a general role in the struggle against Maximilian. He was a conservative vain - accustomed to using rice powder to whiten the face. She is quoted as saying: << Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States >>. His autocratic rul
Athens of South America
Porfirio Diaz
gaucho (cowboy)
Costa Rica
28. Failing all attempts to achieve intellectual independence own artistic expression - a group of poets began the revitalization of literature in Castilian. His aesthetic soon won in Latin America and influenced the writers of Spain. Then they exchanged
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
The Mexican Revolution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Borinquineers
29. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Morazan
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexican Revolution
Gerardo Machado Morales
30. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
gaucho (cowboy)
Jorge Luis Borges
manufacturing
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
31. Constitution noted the historic legal standards of the Revolution. The most important articles state that (a) is prohibited from the Church acquires - owns or manages real estate - (b) soil and subsoil belong to the State - (c) is right to organize l
1917 Constitution
Borinquineers
Poetry
Morazan
32. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
William Walker
democratic Caesarism
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Francisco Madero
33. In his speech to poetry - Bello recommends return to nature and leave the civilized Europe << >> - << light region misery i>. The Venezuelan humanist sentiments expressed in a neoclassical romantic full of clues.
Columbia
an independent country
Benito Juarez
Andres Bello
34. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Porfirio Diaz
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gran Colombia
Americanism
35. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Augusto Cesar Sandino
The Mexican Revolution
gaucho (cowboy)
36. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
an independent country
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Treaty of Ancon
37. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
the guachafita
the U.S.
Treaty of Ancon
38. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Panama's independence
Jose Marti
Honduras
Balun Canan
39. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Hopscotch
Jose Marti
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
40. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
1999
Latin American realism
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
41. _____ is not a part of Latin America
church
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Puerto Rico
Manuel Antonio Noriega
42. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
a commonwealth
Porfirio Diaz
Indians
Carlota
43. administrative integrity and dynamism he conquered much popularity. Conducted more work for the benefit of the dispossessed classes than their predecessors. Implemented the Constitution of 1917 - land was expropriated and distributed forty-five milli
modernism
Athens of South America
Jacobo Arbenz
Lazaro Cardenas
44. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Poetry
Timber
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
45. under President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz - happened a sad afternoon for Mexican university. In the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Tlatelolco - students marched in support of university autonomy and the rights of students were attacked at political and poli
Jacobo Arbenz
Poetry
Tlatelolco
gaucho (cowboy)
46. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Albizu Campos
Jose Marti
Caribbean
47. most significantly the turbulent period was the abolition of slavery - proclaimed earlier than most of the Americas. In these circumstances - Spain tried to reconquer the country - but the Mexican forces led by General Spanish imperialists foiled the
Santa Anna
a commonwealth
Timber
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
48. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Carlota
El Salvador
Andres Bello
Oscar Arias Sanchez
49. liberalism division was due to the disappointment of those who opposed the recent policy of the regime ministers millionaires. In 1948 - while celebrating the Pan American Conference - Jorge Gaitan - leader of the leftist branch of liberalism - was k
students
The Mexican Revolution
choteo
the bogotazo
50. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tlatelolco
Carlota
The President