The civics test is for basic understanding of the English language, including the ability to speak, read, and write simple common words and phrases, and a basic knowledge and understanding of U.S. history and the U.S. form of government, also known as "civics."
The choices for this question are:
<em>A. Revolts against Spanish rule broke out throughout the Americas</em>
<em>B. Colonists in North America successfully declared their independence</em>
<em>C. Spanish leaders abandoned Europe to more effectively govern their American Colonies</em>
<em>D. Spain joined with the United States to develop more trade in the colonies</em>
The correct answer is A.
Many populations in Spanish America took advantage of the political situation in Spain to fight for their independence. This was the start of the decolonization of Latin America.
In Mexico, the war of independence was won in 1821. In 1822, after a brief monarchic period, the Republic was declared.
In Brazil, the independence was declared in 1822 after political changes in the country caused by the transference of the Portuguese crown to the Brazilian territory because of Napoleon's threat of invasion of Portugal.
In this period Simon Bolívar, military and political leader tried to unite Latin America based on a Latin-American identity. Because of this, he helped to set free the territories that became Venezuela, Bolívia, and Peru among many others.
Answer:
Some of the torture methods that interrogators used to get prisoners to admit to crimes were having prisoners skulls squeezed within iron rings, exposing their naked bodies to be bitten by ants and other different bugs and being stopped from sleeping for a week.
Explanation:
The gulag was a Russian government agency created by Vladimir Lenin, the agency was in charge of the soviet forced labor camp system. The camp contained an extremely large number of convicts.
The conflict, fought between June and October 1877, stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce, dubbed "non-treaty Indians," to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho.
