Unit 11: Paper 3 — History of the Americas (HL)
Topic 11.5: The formation of modern nations in the Americas (1860–1929) Questions
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1Evaluate the claim that15 marks
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Evaluate the claim that the científicos' ideology of "order and progress" was primarily a justification for excluding ordinary Mexicans from political power rather than a genuine plan for national development.
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Which indigenous group was deported and forced into labour on plantations in Yucatán after resisting the seizure of their land?
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By 1914, approximately how many kilometres of railway had been built in Argentina, most of it funded and owned by British companies?
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To what extent was Porfirio Díaz's political control of Mexico dependent on genuine popular support rather than patronage and repression?
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Evaluate the claim that the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) was, above all, an act of nation-building rather than an act of conquest for elite economic gain.
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Discuss the view that Mexico's economic transformation under Díaz (1876-1911) benefited the nation as a whole rather than a narrow elite.
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Evaluate the claim that economic transformation in Argentina, 1860-1929, benefited the nation as a whole rather than a narrow elite.
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Which technology is identified as the main driver of economic transformation in the Americas between 1860 and 1929?
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Which Mexican president (in office 1876-1911) welcomed foreign investment that built railroads and controlled mining and oil, while wealth concentrated in a small elite and rural poverty barely improved?
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Approximately how much did Mexico's railway network grow during the Porfiriato (1876 to 1910)?
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The US Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned nearly all Chinese immigration and showed how migration policy reflected racial hierarchies rather than just labour needs, was passed in which year?
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Argentina's Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) is best described as a campaign that used which method to clear Indigenous groups from land wanted for European settlement?
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What did the 1912 Saenz Pena Law establish in Argentina?
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Which Argentine general led the 'Conquest of the Desert' campaign of 1878-1885?
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In what year did Hipolito Yrigoyen and the Radical Civic Union (UCR) win Argentina's first genuinely free presidential election?
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Which idea did Argentine elites use to justify ranking European settlers as naturally more 'fit' to lead the nation than Indigenous peoples?
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Which cultural form rose from being scorned by Argentine elites in the 1880s-90s to becoming a symbol of national identity by the 1910s-20s?
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Which group of technocratic advisors provided the intellectual justification for Porfirio Díaz's rule in Mexico?
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What triggered the 1906 Cananea strike in Sonora?
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What immediate event triggered the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910?
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