Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of the economy in Spanish America?
A) The majority of people in Latin America were rapidly organized into a light industrial economy intended to produce goods for American society.
B) Although the majority of people were engaged in agriculture, the whole Spanish commercial system was organized around the mining company.
C) Latin America received almost its entire food supply from Europe, because the Spanish colonies were entirely geared to the production of sugar on estate agricultural systems.
D) The agricultural economy of Latin America absorbed virtually its entire population because of the absence of large domesticated animals prior to 1800.
Ans: B) Although the majority of people were engaged in agriculture, the whole Spanish commercial system was organized around the mining company.
You might also like to view...
The farm workers' movement became known as
A) La Causa. B) Alianza. C) La Raza. D) Huelga.
Which of the following nations practiced slavery in Latin America and the West Indies?
A) England B) Spain C) France D) All of the above.
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s __________
A) appealed to old-stock Americans nervous about social and cultural change B) focused solely on blacks in both the North and the South C) was not politically active or powerful D) admitted women as long as they were white, native-born Protestants E) was active mainly in the Old South
The FBI faced fierce criticism for its raid on the Branch Davidian compound in __________
A) Waco, Texas B) Chicago, Illinois C) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma D) Baton Rouge, Louisiana