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LALS 1 Worksheet #5 Chapters 2-3 (Gonzalez) 1. At the top of the hierarchy in New Spain were the peninsulares
. In which region were they born? a. Latin America b. Europe c. United States of America d. California 2. The United States acquired which of the following territories from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819? a. New Mexico b. Texas c. Florida d. California 3. Starting in 1810 Anglo adventurers and mercenaries known as ___________, would invade Spanish borderland communities, capture a town or territory, and then proclaim it as their personal Republic. a. criollos
b. vaqueros
c. mayorazgo
d. filibusteros
4. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: a. ended Mexico’s war with Spain. b. forced Mexico to give up half its territory to the U.S. c. defined the limits of Guatemala and Honduras. d. ended the six year-long Peninsular War. 5. Which of the Spanish speaking annexations below transformed the U.S. into a major world empire? a. Florida and the Southeast in 1820 b. Texas, California, and the Southwest in 1855 c. lands from the Spanish American War of 1898 d. all of the above
6. Shortly after the end of the Spanish American War, the main export of U.S. occupied Puerto Rico was ______. a. tobacco b. silver c. tin d. sugar 7. In what country did the U.S. intervene when a financial crisis hit in 1905 prompting President Roosevelt to declare the island a financial protectorate. a. The Dominican Republic b. Jamaica c. Turks and Caicos d. Cozumel 9. True or False:
A good deal of nineteenth century U.S. growth flowed directly from the Anglo conquest of Spanish speaking America. 10. True or False:
Most U.S. Presidents were against the taking of Latin American land. 11. True or False:
Soaring unemployment in the 1920’s forced many Cuban workers to migrate to the United States. 12. True or False:
After Puerto Rico, the single largest U.S. expansion into Latin America was in Honduras where a canal was built that linked the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific. 13. True or False:
In some countries, the term El Jefe
refers to a dictator or strongman. 14. True or False:
Tennessee-born lawyer and journalist, William Walker and his band of recruited North American mercenaries, took over the Latin American country of Panama, reinstated slavery and then declared Walker president.
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