(Answered) : World History Questions 5

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1. Why were elite Iberian-Americans initially reluctant to embrace the idea of independence?

They feared that independence would lead peninsulares to return to Europe.

They feared that it might generate revolts among slaves or Amerindians.

They feared that without a strong monarchy, the Catholic Church would gain too much influence.

They feared that cooperation among the various colonies of the Spanish empire would undermine their positions of wealth and power.

2. Calls for political revolution in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world relied on which of the following new ideas?

Nationalism and democracy

Nationalism and mercantilism

Absolutism and capitalism

Absolutism and socialism

3. During the eighteenth and nineteenth