This is the quiz I'm giving on Mexican history today

[Bucky]

answers in follow up post

1. Which of the following was not something that Spain valued in Mexico as a colony?
    a. Rich silver mines
    b. Cash crops like sugar & tobacco
    c. textile factories
    d. source of heavy taxation

2. What was the purpose of the “Grito de Dolores”?
    a. Protesting conditions in all Spanish colonies.
    b. Calling out for religious tolerance in Spain
    c. To cry out for Mexico’s sorrows
    d. To call for Mexico’s independence

3. What was a factor in Mexico winning its independence?
    a. superior technology of the Mexican peasants
    b. criollos joined with mestizos in the fight against Spain
    c. Spain didn’t have a navy to carry its troops over to Mexico
    d. the Mexican patriots were protected by the Appalachian Mountains

4. Why did Texas and Yucatan rebel against Mexico during the presidency of Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana?
    a. They had religious differences
    b. Santa Ana failed to industrialize them
    c. He suspended the Constitution of 1824
    d. He suspended the Bill of Rights

5. Which Mexican president resisted the French invasion and occupation of Mexico from 1862 to 1867?
    a. Benito Juárez
    b. Antonio López de Santa Ana
    c. Maximiliano El Primero
    d. Francisco “Pancho” Villa

6. In what year did the Mexican Revolution begin?
    a. 1810
    b. 1824
    c. 1836
    d. 1910

7. Which historical figure below was never president of Mexico?
    a. Father Miguel Hidalgo
    b. Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
    c. Benito Juarez
    d. Porfirio Diaz

8. During the “Porfirato,” Porfirio Diaz had all of the following policies from 1880-1910 except. . . .
    a. increasing foreign investments in Mexico
    b. consolidating land holdings in large haciendas
    c. building railroads and factories
    d. driving foreigners out of Mexico for good

9. Which of the following was not a cause of the Mexican Revolution?
    a. the US invasion of 1915
    b. too much foreign ownership of Mexican land and industries
    c. extreme poverty and low wages for workers
    d. arresting & killing Francisco Madero & other political opponents

10. What are mestizos?
    a. the last Mayan settlers of Old Mexico
    b. persons of both Spanish and American Indian heritage
    c. Spanish Protestants who fled religious abuse
    d. Hispanics of mixed Asian heritage

[Bucky]

1. the answers

1. Which of the following was not something that Spain valued in Mexico as a colony?
    a. Rich silver mines
    b. Cash crops like sugar & tobacco
    c. textile factories
    d. source of heavy taxation

2. What was the purpose of the “Grito de Dolores”?
    a. Protesting conditions in all Spanish colonies.
    b. Calling out for religious tolerance in Spain
    c. To cry out for Mexico’s sorrows
    d. To call for Mexico’s independence

3. What was a factor in Mexico winning its independence?
    a. superior technology of the Mexican peasants
    b. criollos joined with mestizos in the fight against Spain
    c. Spain didn’t have a navy to carry its troops over to Mexico
    d. the Mexican patriots were protected by the Appalachian Mountains

4. Why did Texas and Yucatan rebel against Mexico during the presidency of Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana?
    a. They had religious differences
    b. Santa Ana failed to industrialize them
    c. He suspended the Constitution of 1824
    d. He suspended the Bill of Rights

5. Which Mexican president resisted the French invasion and occupation of Mexico from 1862 to 1867?
    a. Benito Juárez
    b. Antonio López de Santa Ana
    c. Maximiliano El Primero
    d. Francisco “Pancho” Villa

6. In what year did the Mexican Revolution begin?
    a. 1810
    b. 1824
    c. 1836
    d. 1910

7. Which historical figure below was never president of Mexico?
    a. Father Miguel Hidalgo
    b. Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
    c. Benito Juarez
    d. Porfirio Diaz

8. During the “Porfirato,” Porfirio Diaz had all of the following policies from 1880-1910 except. . . .
    a. increasing foreign investments in Mexico
    b. consolidating land holdings in large haciendas
    c. building railroads and factories
    d. driving foreigners out of Mexico for good

9. Which of the following was not a cause of the Mexican Revolution?
    a. the US invasion of 1915
    b. too much foreign ownership of Mexican land and industries
    c. extreme poverty and low wages for workers
    d. arresting & killing Francisco Madero & other political opponents

10. What are mestizos?
    a. the last Mayan settlers of Old Mexico
    b. persons of both Spanish and American Indian heritage
    c. Spanish Protestants who fled religious abuse
    d. Hispanics of mixed Asian heritage

[rug]

2. I suck.

:(

[underpants]

4. 1910?

I did not know that

[Bucky]

6. The Mexican Revolution and the Mexican War of Independence are two different events

Almost exactly 100 years apart. The revolution was against the old system that kept the people impovrished in debt servitude under Porfirio Diaz.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. Mex Rev =/= Mexican War for Independence, as Bucky says.

1810 was the beginning of the Hidalgo/Morelos revolts against Spain (War of Independence.)

1910 was the beginning of Francisco Madero's call for uprising against Porfirio Diaz, an autocrat (Mexican Revolution).

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. 10/10 yeah baby.

:)

[NoPasaran]

3. I rock!

Margaritas time?

[Symarip]

5. Extra Credit:

What day is associated with Mexico?

Answer
Cinco de Drunko

[Bucky]

7. Last time I was in Mexico...

every day was Cinco de Boracho.

[UndertheOcean]

8. I hate quizzes

[FloridaJudy]

9. If you take question #2 literally

Which I must confess I did, answer c. would have been correct as well.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. My answers:

1. C
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. A
8. D
9. A
10. B

I swear to God that Porfirio Diaz has one of the best names in Western Hemisphere history. That and Lazaro Cardenas--love those Mexican names.