Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.3: Colonial government in the New World (1500–1800) Questions
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Which city served as the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru?
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Choose the correct answer: Who led the Pombaline reforms in Brazil?
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What administrative change did Louis XIV make to New France in 1663?
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In which year did Virginia become a royal colony after its company charter was revoked?
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Choose the correct answer: Which fort did George Washington clash with French forces near in 1754, sparking the French and Indian War?
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Who was granted the proprietary colony of Pennsylvania in 1681?
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Choose the correct answer: In what year did Portugal expel the Jesuits from Brazil?
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Which forced-labour system specifically required Indigenous communities to send a rotating quota of workers to the silver mines of Potosi?
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Choose the correct answer: Under the Treaty of Paris (1763), which territory did Spain receive from France?
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Choose the correct answer: What was the main cause of the Tupac Amaru II Rebellion (1780-1782)?
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Examine the reasons why Spain built a more centralized system of colonial government than Britain did in the Americas.
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Evaluate the effectiveness of Spain's system of checks on colonial officials in maintaining royal control over its American empire.
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To what extent was mercantilism the driving force behind European colonial government in the Americas up to 1700?
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the Bourbon reforms in strengthening Spanish royal control over its American colonies.
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Discuss the reasons for, and consequences of, Portugal's shift from hereditary captaincies to direct crown government in Brazil.
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Examine the reasons why Spain and Portugal introduced administrative reforms in their American colonies in the eighteenth century.
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Examine the methods used by Spain to organize forced Indigenous labour in its American colonies, and the impact of these methods.
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To what extent was royal authority in the Spanish American colonies effective in practice during the eighteenth century?
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Evaluate the importance of chartered companies and proprietors in shaping the government of Britain's North American colonies.
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Discuss the reasons for the shift from Habsburg to early Bourbon governing styles in Spanish America after 1700.
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