History quiz

History Exercises on the First Republic in Brazil - with feedback

Question 01 - IFS 2014.1 - Graduation - Regarding the economic crisis of the First Republic, it is incorrect to say that:a) The political-administrative reforms of the State were followed by economic measures that were also necessary for the functioning of the Republic; b) In 1890, Rui Barbosa, then Minister of Finance, took one of the first decisions to encourage the creation of industrial and commercial companies in the country; c) The climate of speculation created by the abundance of new businesses and companies became known as the economic freeze; d) The climate of speculation created by the abundance of new businesses and companies became known as Encilhamento; e) The final result of Rui Barbosa's economic policy was a major crisis:the currency lost value, imports grew, companies and banks failed and public coffers were empty.

Question 02 - UFT 2017 - Transfer - It was a period marked by the search for the construction of disciplinary rules that standardized factories, homes, collective spaces and, mainly, workers with anarchist orientations. IT IS CORRECT to state that this period refers to:
(A) The Regency Period.
(B) The Nativist Revolutions.
(C) The early years of the Johannine Period.
( D) To the final years of the Pombaline Period.
(E) To the initial years of the First Republic.

Question 03 - CEFET-MG - 2017 - Integrated Technician - “Recent analyzes of presidential successions in the First Republic (1889-1930) show that the famous alliance between Minas Gerais and São Paulo, called the ‘coffee with milk’ policy, did not exclusively control republican power. There were at least four other states with marked importance in the political scenario:Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Pernambuco.”
(VISCARDI, Cláudia. In addition to coffee with milk. In:FIGUEIREDO, Luciano. (Org.). History of Brazil for the Occupied. Rio de Janeiro:Casa da Palavra, 2013, p. 165.)In that period, the political organization of the Republica) controlled the outcome of the elections through the pact established between different states.
b) encouraged social practices of workers' mobilization around urban revolts.
c) revealed the free participation of Brazilian citizens in choosing their representatives in the presidency.
d) presented democratic characteristics with the egalitarian division of power among regional elites.
Question 04 - FUVEST 2009 - 1st Phase - In an assessment of the First Republic in Brazil, Júlio de Mesquita Filho wrote:“... politics is no longer guided by the freely expressed popular will, but by the whims of a limited number of individuals under whose protection all those who wish to a seat in state and federal assemblies. The national crisis, 1925. According to the text, the author) criticizes the excessive autonomy of the legislative power. b) proposes limits to federalism. c) defends the parliamentary regime. d) criticizes the oligarchic power. e) defends the political supremacy of the south of the country.

Question 05 - CEFET-MG - 2015 - Integrated Technician - Regarding the economy in the First Republic, tick (V) for the true ones or (F) for the false ones.
( ) The economic measures prioritized the appreciation of coffee.
( ) The first republican governments stimulated the basic industry.
( ) Coffee profits boosted Brazilian industrialization.
( ) Governments adopted the exchange rate appreciation policy.
The correct sequence found is
a) T V F V.
b) V F F V.
c) V F V F.
d) F V V F.
Question 06 - MPE-GO - 2018 - MPE-GO - Secretary Auxiliary - Saint Helena -“The jagunços controlled the votes through physical coercion. In this way, voters who were against the colonel's aspiration were punished, with loss of work or even being victims of homicide. To control votes, the colonels also rigged votes, altering votes, disappearing ballot boxes, and even sponsored the practice of phantom voting. This practice consisted of falsifying documents so that voters could vote several times and even use the names of deceased people in elections. In between exchanging some political favors, the colonels guaranteed the election of certain representatives who controlled the national political scene. Without difficulties, the results of the elections could be forged to favor the small elite of landowners”. The text above refers to facts that occurred in which period of Brazilian history?a) Vargas Erab) Colonial Brazilc) Military Dictatorship of 1964d) Empire Brazile) First Republic
Question 07 - CEFET-MG - 2013 - Integrated Technician - These are striking features of the sociopolitical scenario of the First Republic in Brazil (1889-1930), EXCEPT a) the existence of rural workers' organizations, which were grouped into national parties. b) constitution of regional republican parties, which decided the destinies of Brazilian politics. c) concentration of power in local political bosses, who controlled voters in their area of ​​influence. d) presence of a pact between federal and state governments, which was called governors' policy.

Question 08 - PUCRS 2007.1 - INSTRUCTION:To answer question 08, read the information below and list the social movements (Column 1) and their respective characteristics (Column 2), numbering the parentheses. The First Republic (1889-1930) was marked by political and economic instability. With authoritarian practices, this new political regime proposed a conservative modernization, without popular participation. In this context, conflicts erupted in different parts of the national territory, such as those mentioned below.
Column 1
1. Armada Revolt
2. War of Canudos
3. Vaccine Revolt
4. Whip Revolt
5. Contestado War

Column 2
( ) Raise the sailors against physical punishment and low wages.
( ) Raise against the authoritarianism of the sanitary police and the eviction of the poor population of the tenements from the center of Rio de Janeiro.
( ) Struggle of poor peasants for possession of land on the border between Santa Catarina and Paraná, led by the monk João Maria.
( ) Uprising of the Navy against the authoritarianism of Floriano Peixoto and against the strong presence of the Army in the government.
( ) The struggle of the poor peasants of the sertão of Bahia, led by Antonio Conselheiro, against republican authoritarianism and against the interests of large landowners.
28) The correct numbering, from top to bottom, is
A) 1, 3, 2, 4, 5
B) 1, 2, 5, 1, 3
C) 2, 3, 1, 5, 4
D) 3, 5, 1, 2, 4
E) 4, 3, 5, 1, 2

Question 09 - CEFET-MG - 2013 - Integrated Technician - These are striking features of the sociopolitical scenario of the First Republic in Brazil (1889-1930), EXCEPT the
a) existence of rural workers' organizations, which were grouped into national parties.
b) constitution of regional republican parties , who decided the fate of Brazilian politics.
c) concentration of power in local political leaders, who controlled the voters in their area of ​​influence.
d) presence of a pact between federal and state governments, which was called governors' policy.

Question 10 - FUVEST 2016 - Transfer – It would be very difficult to predict, at the beginning of 1929, that, after the relatively quiet presidency of Washington Luís, a strong division would arise between the elites of the large states. Even more, that this split would eventually lead to the end of the First Republic.
Boris Fausto. History of Brazil. São Paulo:Edusp, 1994. Among the reasons that led to the end of the First Republic, it is correct to cite) the triumph of the tenentist movement led by Luís Carlos Prestes, who, in proposing an agrarian reform throughout the country, clashed with land interests of the owners of Rio Grande do Sul, who ended up supporting the Getúlio Vargas coup.
b) the imperialist interests of the United States, a country that was in great difficulties as a result of the economic crisis of 1929, and that saw, in the Brazil, a potential consumer market for its manufactures.
c) the political disagreements between the oligarchies of Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, on the one hand, and President Washington Luís, from São Paulo, on the other, who insisted on the candidacy to his succession of another paulista, Júlio Prestes.
d) a succession of coups against provincial governors and assassinations of communist and socialist presidential candidates, which created fear among regional oligarchies of an intervention in Brazil.
e) the social instability caused by the transition from slave labor to wage labor, which created in several of the country's main cities a persistent climate of insecurity that increasingly led to riots and popular rebellions.
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Question 11 - CEDAF - UFV 2019 - “The republic was proclaimed. But strength was not enough to sustain the new regime. Society had to be persuaded. For this, the republicans had to formulate symbols, images, rituals that would show society the legitimacy of the new political regime. These symbols should also mark the differences between the republic and the monarchy, proving the advantages of the former over the latter.”
(CARVALHO, José Murilo de. The formation of souls:the imaginary of the republic in Brazil. São Paulo:Cia das Letras, 1990, p. 135.) The new flag, the national anthem and the image of Tiradentes as a hero in the History books of the First Brazilian Republic were symbols that aimed to:a) advertise in favor of the return of slavery and the monarchical form of government.
b) to invent a war environment in the country to later hand over power to the military.
c) to convince society of the need for a communist mentality for progress.
/>d) create a collective feeling of identification with a modern nation against the old model.

Question 12 - ENEM 2016 - Coronelismo was the result of a change in the balance of forces between rural landowners and the government, and meant the strengthening of state power before the predominance of the colonel. In this conception, coronelismo is, then, a national political system, based on bargains between the government and the coroneis. The colonel has control of public offices, from the chief of police to the primary school teacher. The colonel mortgages his support to the government, especially in the form of a vote.
CARVALHO, J. M. Pontos and embroidery:writings of political history. Belo Horizonte:Editora UFMG, 1998 (adapted). In the context of the First Republic in Brazil, the political relations described were based on A) coercion by local militias.
B) stagnation of urban dynamics.
C) valorization of party proselytism.
D ) dissemination of clientelistic practices.
E) centralization of administrative decisions.

Question 13 - PUC-RIO- 200 6 - During the First Republic (1889-1930), there were, in Brazilian society, revolts that, despite the differences, expressed the dissatisfaction and criticism of popular groups regarding the mechanisms of social and political exclusion and the strategies of expansion of interests
Check the statement that CORRECTLY identifies revolts of this nature:
a) Canudos War and Vaccine Revolt;
b) Federalist Revolt and Contestado War;
c) Vaccine Revolt and Armada Revolt;
d) Lash Revolt and Federalist Revolt;
e) Contestado War and Armada Revolt.
Question 14 - FAMERP 2020 - Observe Storni's cartoon, published in Careta magazine on 02.19.1927. Published during the First Brazilian Republic, the cartoon refers to a (A) corrupt action that allowed the diversion of public funds. (B) political practice that facilitated the continuity of oligarchic rule. (C) constitutional proposition that determined the obligation to vote. (D) political experience that favored the sovereignty of the popular vote. (E) electoral law aimed at guaranteeing voter loyalty.
INTRODUCTION
01 - C
02 - E
03 - A
04 - D
05 - C
06 - E
07 - A
08 - E
09 - A
10 - C
11 - D
12 - D
13 - A14 - B