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Argentina Ethnic Groups

Quiz by Greg Williford

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  • Q1
    1. Which two European countries contributed the most immigrants to Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
    Poland and Russia
    Italy and Spain
    France and Germany
    Great Britain and Ireland
    30s
  • Q2
    2. What was the main language spoken by Italian immigrants in Argentina, which is still widely spoken in Buenos Aires today?
    Polish
    Spanish
    French
    Italian
    30s
  • Q3
    3. Which group of indigenous people in Argentina were forced into labor after being conquered by the Spanish in the colonial period?
    Guaraní
    Guaycuruan-speaking peoples
    Diaguita
    Araucanian Indians
    30s
  • Q4
    4. What event in the 1870s marked the end of Araucanian Indian raids on Spanish settlements in the southern Pampas?
    Great Chaco War
    Patagonian Rebellion
    Conquest of the Desert
    Battle of Buenos Aires
    30s
  • Q5
    5. What was the pre-Columbian regional population of indigenous people estimated at before their numbers drastically depleted by 1810?
    300,000
    2 million
    500,000
    1 million
    30s
  • Q6
    6. What percentage of the population in 1869 in Argentina consisted of foreign-born immigrants?
    50 percent
    75 percent
    12 percent
    25 percent
    30s
  • Q7
    7. Which ethnic group contributed to building railroads and creating the meat-processing industry in Argentina?
    Germans
    Japanese
    French
    British
    30s
  • Q8
    8. What was the term used to refer to the "people of the port" in the Buenos Aires region?
    Porteños
    Tehuelche
    Gauchos
    Pampas
    30s
  • Q9
    9. Which region of Argentina saw the growth of mestizos from Chile, Bolivia, and Paraguay in the late 20th century?
    Bordering regions
    Tierra del Fuego
    Andean provinces
    Patagonia
    30s
  • Q10
    10. How did the children of immigrants in Argentina typically identify themselves?
    Spaniards
    Argentines
    Mestizos
    Italians
    30s

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