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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
gaucho (cowboy)
Francisco Madero
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Americanism
2. the illiterate indigenous noble. In the south - continued the struggle for Land and Freedom << >> - << convinced that it is better to die standing than live on your knees >> - slogan adopted by the Republicans after the Civil War in Spain.
Columbia
Trujillo
Timber
Shoe
3. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Carlota
modernism
Poetry
Puerto Rico
4. 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
Albizu Campos
the bogotazo
students
Augusto Cesar Sandino
5. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
muralists
Carlota
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Somoza family
6. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Francisco Madero
an independent country
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
7. had three stages of the Mexican Revolution: the wartime period (1910-1920) - the organizing stage (1920-1940) and the conservative stage (1940-2000). It was an armed struggle that started in 1910 - with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against for
El Salvador
Mexican Revolution
Somoza family
Francisco Madero
8. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
church
Jacobo Arbenz
silver
thirty-three (33)
9. 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.
Andres Bello
Antonio Conselherio
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Lazaro Cardenas
10. 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.
Caribbean
Jacobo Arbenz
muralists
gaucho (cowboy)
11. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Emiliano Zapata
William Walker
Benito Juarez
12. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Somoza family
Albizu Campos
gaucho (cowboy)
illiterate (cant read or write)
13. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Antonio Conselherio
a commonwealth
Athens of South America
14. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Ruben Dario
Platt Amendment
muralists
15. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Andres Bello
Caribbean
Mexican Revolution
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
16. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Benito Juarez
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
1999
17. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Carlota
Lazaro Cardenas
Albizu Campos
United Fruit Company
18. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Andres Bello
The Mexican Revolution
Gran Colombia
19. Walker dreamed establish a slave empire in Central America which had himself elected president of Nicaragua in 1856. Seeing the danger - the other Central American governments fought the famous filibuster to defeat him and shoot him in 1860.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
William Walker
Manuel Antonio Noriega
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
20. 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
Gran Colombia
Hatuey
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
The Mexican Revolution
21. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Francisco Morazan
Carlota
Balun Canan
22. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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23. The fundamental objective of Hispanic realism seemed to go against the Latin American artistic desire. By offering a slice of life - a writer is unable to show the full reality of the new world I wanted to say - because this new school had at its cor
Latin American realism
choteo
Balun Canan
Ruben Dario
24. the U.S. occupation army remained in Cuba until 1902. In accordance with the Platt Amendment to the Cuban government is obliged not to conclude international treaties without U.S. consent - to authorize the establishment of naval bases in the United
silver
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Platt Amendment
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
25. 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
1999
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Ruben Dario
26. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
One Hundred Years of Solitude
an independent country
parella - tortilla
27. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Honduras
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Costa Rica
28. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Emiliano Zapata
Jorge Luis Borges
Lazaro Cardenas
William Walker
29. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
1917 Constitution
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Santa Anna
the guachafita
30. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Hatuey
Athens of South America
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
31. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Somoza family
Shoe
The Mexican Revolution
gaucho (cowboy)
32. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Caribbean
Jacobo Arbenz
33. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
church
muralists
34. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Athens of South America
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Platt Amendment
35. Laureano Vallenilla Lanz was the author of the most eloquent defense of despotism Latin America: Democratic Caesarism - translated into Italian by order of Mussolini to show a happy anticipation of the fascist system.
democratic Caesarism
Jose Santos Zelaya
Shoe
gaucho (cowboy)
36. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
gaucho (cowboy)
El Salvador
Mexican Revolution
Puerto Rico
37. before election fraud and government waste - the opposition candidate launched the famous Plan de San Luis Potosi; policy proposal considered a call to rebellion that began the Mexican Revolution. He was proclaimed provisional president in 1911.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Timber
parella - tortilla
El Salvador
38. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
The President
Puerto Rico
Augusto Cesar Sandino
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
39. America is not only...
the U.S.
Jacobo Arbenz
Francisco Madero
Hatuey
40. Spain's signature popular dishes
Athens of South America
1917 Constitution
Honduras
parella - tortilla
41. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Jacobo Arbenz
the bogotazo
realistic
William Walker
42. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Panama's independence
Costa Rica
the guachafita
Puerto Rico
43. 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
democratic Caesarism
Gran Colombia
Costa Rica
Morazan
44. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Porfirio Diaz
the guachafita
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Trujillo
45. of 1909-1933 Nicaragua suffered heavily U.S. intervention - guided by the dollar diplomacy. United States first imposed its customs control and then occupied the country with Marine detachments. The occupation was unopposed until 1927 - when the gene
United Fruit Company
Augusto Sandino
Jorge Luis Borges
Jacobo Arbenz
46. One of the inmates in New York patriots - led the expedition to liberate the island. His hunch written in a letter to his mother served and died in the battlefield. He bequeathed to posterity his desire for freedom - to which he had devoted his life
1999
Jose Marti
Jose Santos Zelaya
United Fruit Company
47. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
manufacturing
the guachafita
church
Jorge Luis Borges
48. During the presidency of Gustavo Dias Ordaz - in the Plaza of the Three Cultures - in Tlateloco - police and political shock guard attacked a group of ..
Costa Rica
students
Ruben Dario
Jose Santos Zelaya
49. Bogota
Porfirio Diaz
Mexican Revolution
Athens of South America
Columbia
50. took office in 1857 - proud of his Zapotec Indian blood. Juarez promulgated the reform laws that established the suppression of the religious orders - the confiscation of church property and the obligation to register the birth - marriage and death.
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
continent
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Benito Juarez