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Manufacturing in Latin America before the 1950s included all of the following except

A) heavy industry,such as steel.
B) transforming imported materials because of cheaper labor costs.
C) finishing raw materials for export,such as sugar.
D) industries that addressed local demands,such as power plants.

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The slogan “Order and Progress” used in Brazil can be traced to the ideas of

A) socialism.
B) positivism.
C) Stalinism.
D) liberalism.

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Detail and explain the causes and events of the Mexican Revolution.How did race,economics,and religion influence the revolution? What leaders were successful and why? Were there any parallels to the war against Maximilian? How did the war affect American-Mexican relations? Detail the resulting political situation after the conflict.What changed? What remained the same?

Slavery continued to exist until 1888 in

The United Provinces of La Plata included much of which modern day country?

How did Latin American elites justify the exploitation of mestizos,Indians,and blacks? What are the ideological foundations of this exploitation? What was the role of liberalism and positivism in developing policies designed to keep non-whites under social and economic submission?

What effect did World War I have on the major countries of South America? What changes did the respective countries make to their governments and their economies following World War I? Overall,do you think that the war had a largely positive or negative impact on South America?

Compare and contrast the governments of Vargas and Perón.Were there ideological similarities between the two leaders? Did similar circumstances propel them to power? How successful were they?

The major foreign power exercising economic influence over Latin America in the early decades of the 19th century was

The growing European economic demand in the late nineteenth century gave Latin Americans all of the following except a

Which of the following accounts for the relegation of Latin America to a dependent trading partner after the 1920s?

Dependent or periphery countries possess all of the following qualities except

Why did industrialization not develop in Latin America as it did in Europe and in the United States? What role did the price of land play in this process? Why was foreign capital not used to build an industrial base in any of the countries? What were the major commodities exported from Latin America after 1850?

In 19th century Latin America, agricultural labor primarily took the form of

What does it mean to say that Latin American nations achieved independence without revolution? What was the role of the creole elite in this process? Why was there not a fundamental revolution in the area until 1910? What was the role of the Roman Catholic Church? What was the importance of "scientific" racism?

A major obstacle to the economic development of Latin America in the 19th century was

In the 19th century, postcolonial Brazil differed from other newly independent nations in South America for all of the following reasons except