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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
Latin American realism
Santa Anna
Jose Marti
Porfirio Diaz
2. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Emiliano Zapata
gaucho (cowboy)
Borinquineers
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
3. 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
1999
manufacturing
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Platt Amendment
4. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Poetry
Benito Juarez
Markos Commandante
Jose Marti
5. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Markos Commandante
Augusto Sandino
Francisco Madero
6. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Latin American realism
Emiliano Zapata
Puerto Rico
7. 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
Timber
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Ruben Dario
Somoza family
8. 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
Tlatelolco
Lazaro Cardenas
Porfirio Diaz
Morazan
9. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Porfirio Diaz
students
Puerto Rico
1917 Constitution
10. 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
students
the bogotazo
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
11. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Francisco Madero
muralists
students
12. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Markos Commandante
modernism
Platt Amendment
13. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Ruben Dario
Antonio Conselherio
Jose Santos Zelaya
Jorge Luis Borges
14. 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.
William Walker
illiterate (cant read or write)
Andres Bello
Trujillo
15. 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.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Benito Juarez
democratic Caesarism
Antonio Conselherio
16. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Panama's independence
Trujillo
Jacobo Arbenz
17. 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
Tlatelolco
Somoza family
students
Porfirio Diaz
18. 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.
Lazaro Cardenas
Trujillo
Timber
church
19. 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
Tlatelolco
Augusto Sandino
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Latin American realism
20. Bogota
Hatuey
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Athens of South America
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
21. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Andres Bello
gaucho (cowboy)
Indians
choteo
22. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Gran Colombia
Lazaro Cardenas
Treaty of Ancon
Hopscotch
23. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Porfirio Diaz
Emiliano Zapata
Santa Anna
Carlota
24. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Francisco Madero
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Columbia
choteo
25. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Lazaro Cardenas
Augusto Cesar Sandino
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Manuel Antonio Noriega
26. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Columbia
silver
Jacobo Arbenz
Hatuey
27. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Gran Colombia
Gerardo Machado Morales
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
28. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
gaucho (cowboy)
Porfirio Diaz
29. 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
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Augusto Sandino
Francisco Madero
continent
30. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Honduras
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Panama's independence
choteo
31. on 1 January 1994 - the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started the armed struggle in the southern state of Chiapas - led by Subcomandante supposedly identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - exprofessor Metropolitina Autonomous U
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
students
Shoe
Markos Commandante
32. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
the guachafita
realistic
Jacobo Arbenz
Francisco Madero
33. 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
Jose Marti
realistic
Jacobo Arbenz
Hopscotch
34. 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
Ruben Dario
Mexican Revolution
United Fruit Company
Benito Juarez
35. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
the U.S.
Markos Commandante
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
36. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Raul Salinas de Gotari
manufacturing
realistic
gaucho (cowboy)
37. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Ruben Dario
democratic Caesarism
El Salvador
the guachafita
38. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Americanism
Andres Bello
Columbia
Jose Santos Zelaya
39. 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
Augusto Cesar Sandino
1917 Constitution
manufacturing
One Hundred Years of Solitude
40. 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.
Benito Juarez
Hopscotch
Borinquineers
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
41. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Carlota
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
42. 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
Timber
Treaty of Ancon
Morazan
Ruben Dario
43. Somoza dynasty was fought by guerrilla followers of the ideology of Sandino. The oppression and corruption of the Somoza popular recrimination. Finally the different sectors - forgetting ideological differences - came together and defeated the Somoza
Timber
Carlota
Albizu Campos
Somoza family
44. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
Raul Salinas de Gotari
1917 Constitution
Augusto Sandino
45. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Augusto Sandino
Mexican Revolution
Honduras
46. America is not only...
Morazan
the U.S.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Mexican Revolution
47. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Porfirio Diaz
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Marti
Raul Salinas de Gotari
48. Latin America is not a...
Jacobo Arbenz
continent
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jose Santos Zelaya
49. 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.
Francisco Morazan
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Balun Canan
Jacobo Arbenz
50. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Athens of South America
choteo
a commonwealth
Andres Bello