Latin America
France
USA
Great Britain
100
What was the major religion in Latin America?
Catholicism
100
What does Les Trois Glorieuses translate to?
3 Glorious Days
100
The addition of this territory to the US caused a war with Mexico. (It is now a state that has a long border with Mexico)
Texas
100
Name one famous British Prime Minister.
Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone
Currently their PM is Boris Johnson, but he's not on the test!
200
Was the social order/class system in Latin America flexible or rigid?
Rigid
200
By the end of the 1870s, how many Republics had France had?
3
200
What is the word for when a state withdraws from the Union?
Secede
200
Which Catholic country DETESTED (hated) being governed by the Protestant English?
Ireland
300
Which two countries had the largest colonial empires in Latin America?
Spain & Portugal
(That's why they speak Spanish there! & Portuguese in Brazil)
300
This guy's famous name helped him get elected in France.
Louis-Napoleon
300
Which American President purchased the Louisiana territory from France?
Thomas Jefferson
300
Britain started this colony for prisoners
Australia
400
Put Mestizos, Peninsulares & Creoles in the correct social order from most powerful to least powerful.
Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos.
400
What meeting restored the Bourbon family to power in France?
Congress of Vienna
400
Which document [doctrine] said that the USA wanted Europe to stay out of Latin America?
Monroe Doctrine
400
What is the famous quote about Great Britain's colonial empire?
"The Sun never sets on the British Empire."
500
Name two reasons that Latin America struggled with self-government.
Colonialism left them in a state of "permanent childhood", they had little experience with self-government before independence, conservatives were able to maintain the status quo.
500
A revolution led by Toussaint L'Overture in what colony convinced Napoleon to sell the Louisiana Purchase to the US?
Haiti
500
Not a USA question...
In what year did Mexico gain its independence?
1821
500
Name 3 complaints that the Irish had against the English
(on the test it asks for which one is not a complaint, so watch out for that!)
Having to pay taxes to the Anglican (protestant) Church, British didn't help them with the Great Famine (potato famine), they had to pay high rents to English/protestant landowners