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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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 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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What immediate event triggered the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910?
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Approximately how much did Mexico's railway network grow during the Porfiriato (1876 to 1910)?
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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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In what year did Hipolito Yrigoyen and the Radical Civic Union (UCR) win Argentina's first genuinely free presidential election?
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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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Which Argentine general led the 'Conquest of the Desert' campaign of 1878-1885?
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To what extent was the 1910 centennial celebration of Mexican independence an accurate reflection of the state of the nation under Díaz?
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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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Discuss the view that the Saenz Pena Law of 1912 and Hipolito Yrigoyen's 1916 election victory represented a genuine expansion of democracy in Argentina.
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Evaluate the claim that the treatment of the Yaqui and the suppression of strikes at Cananea and Río Blanco show that Díaz's regime had no real strategy for managing internal conflict beyond force.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that Indigenismo represented a genuine cultural inclusion of Indigenous peoples in the new Argentine national identity, 1860-1929?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that ideology, rather than material self-interest, was the main force driving Argentina's transformation into a modern nation, 1860-1929?
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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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