Latin American Events of the 19th Century

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Both capitals of Bolivia were named after national liberators. True False

2. Which country lost the War of the Triple Alliance? Paraguay Ecuador Bolivia Honduras

3. Which of the following countries was NOT involved in the War of the Pacific? Bolivia Argentina Chile Peru

4. Which of the following was *not* from Argentina? Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Gabriel Garcia Moreno Justo Jose de Urquiza Bartolomeo Mitre

5. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, five times president and or dictator of Mexico, was indirectly responsible for the origination of chewing gum. True False

6. Brazil had how many emperors in the nineteenth century? Two Three One Eleven

7. New Granada, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama were all part of what larger, independent country in 1825? Answer: (Two Words)

8. Where was Maximillian executed? Cancun Vera Cruz Queretaro Tampico

9. Which Latin American country was by constitutional pronouncement dedicated to "The Sacred Heart of Jesus"? Mexico Paraguay Uruguay Ecuador

10. The traditional centers of Nicaraguan Conservative and Liberal political power were established during the nineteenth century in the cities of Granada and Leon Matagalpa and Dario Managua and Dario Leon and Bluefields