History Activity: Colonial Administration

History activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, with questions developed about Colonial Administration in Brazil.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

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Colonial Administration

1) The Brazilian colonial period is marked by the insertion of Brazil into the European colonial system, as a dependent and complementary economy. Check the correct alternative.
a) The colonial economy was based on the unequal exchange of products in which the colony supplied raw materials and industrialized products and received tropical products from the metropolis.
b) The colony's economy was aimed at strengthening its internal market.

c) The metropolis controlled the colony's economy, using the mechanism known as the colonial pact, which guaranteed the metropolis' commercial monopoly over the colony.
d) The colony and the metropolis established relationships in which commercial advantages were enjoyed mainly by the colony workers.
e) The interests of the metropolis were determined by the dominant layers of the colony.

2) About the institution of the General Government in Colonial Brazil, in 1549, it can be said that:
a) It concentrated all the power of command in the hands of the governors general.
b) It represented an effort by the Metropolis of administrative centralization.
c) Integrated the various hereditary captaincies.
d) Solved the Portuguese economic problems in the Colony.

3) Comparing the processes of territorial expansion and settlement in Brazil and the United States, we can state that:
a) both took place during the Colonial Period.
b) in the United States it took place in the Colonial Period and in Brazil, after independence.
c) both occurred after independence.
d) both in the United States and in Brazil there was, during the Colonial Period, only the occupation of the coastal strip.
e) in Brazil it took place in the Colonial Period and in the United States, after independence.

4) Between 1580-1640 the Iberian Union took place in Europe. This fact had repercussions in Brazil, favoring disrespect for the Tordesilhas treaty and encouraging internalization.
At that time, the main elements that contributed to the Brazilian territorial expansion were:
a) The great naturalization and expulsion of the Jesuits.
b) Italian immigration and small property.
c) Barter and indigenous enslavement.
d) Slavery and African trafficking.
e) Flagship and cattle raising.

5) All alternatives present correct statements about the colonial period in Maranhão, EXCEPT:
a) In the Beckman Revolt, settlers and Jesuits allied themselves in the defense of indigenous slavery, clashing with the Portuguese Crown.
b) European colonization only began in the 17th century, with a dispute between the Portuguese, French and Dutch for possession of the territory.
c) Indigenous slavery was the solution found by the colonists to solve the need for labor in the early days.
d) In the initial 130 years of colonization, agricultural production was mainly consumed in the local market.
e) The Pombaline policy, in the second half of the 18th century, encouraged agricultural production for export and facilitated the introduction of the African slave.

Per Camila Farias.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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