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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, a military coup toppled the monarchy and the First Brazilian Republic was established, albeit with the first five years…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Brazil with the correct year: Growing political instability within the republic brought its downfall in ______, when a military coup headed by Getúlio Vargas ove…
  3. Complete the sentence about Pedro Álvares Cabral with the correct year: As the new land was within the Portuguese sphere according to the ______ Treaty of Tordesillas, Cabral claimed it for the Portug…
  4. Complete the sentence about Pedro Álvares Cabral with the correct year: Cabral was christened Pedro Álvares de Gouveia and only later, supposedly upon his elder brother's death in ______, did he begin…
  5. Complete the sentence about Pedro Álvares Cabral with the correct year: Raised as a member of the lower nobility, Cabral was sent to the court of King Afonso V in ______ at around age 12.
  6. Complete the sentence about Portuguese colonization of the Americas with the correct year: The Treaty of Tordesillas in ______ divided the Earth outside Europe into Castilian and Portuguese global ter…
  7. Complete the sentence about Portuguese colonization of the Americas with the correct year: In ______, King Manuel I of Portugal created taxes for the cod fisheries in Newfoundland waters.
  8. Complete the sentence about Portuguese colonization of the Americas with the correct year: João Álvares Fagundes and Pero de Barcelos established fishing outposts in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia aroun…
  9. Complete the sentence about Portuguese colonization of the Americas with the correct year: On 21 April ______, a mountain was seen that was named Monte Pascoal, and on 22 April, Cabral landed on the c…
  10. Complete the sentence about Colonial Brazil with the correct year: The most decisive of these treaties was the Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in ______, which created the Tordesillas Meridian, dividing…
  11. Complete the sentence about Captaincies of Brazil with the correct year: An additional captaincy was issued to Pero de Gois, captain of Afonso's ______ expedition.
  12. Complete the sentence about Captaincies of Brazil with the correct year: Only four captaincies survived past ______: São Vicente, Pernambuco, Ilhéus and Porto Seguro.
  13. Complete the sentence about Tomé de Sousa with the correct year: In ______, Sousa was recognized by the Portuguese government for his service, and he was knighted three years later for military achiev…
  14. Complete the sentence about Zumbi dos Palmares with the correct year: In ______, following several failed expeditions, Portuguese colonists conquered Palmares with the help of artillery and local alli…
  15. Complete the sentence about Zumbi dos Palmares with the correct year: Palmares was established around ______ by 40 enslaved central Africans who fled to the heavily forested hills that parallel the no…
  16. Complete the sentence about Zumbi dos Palmares with the correct year: Zumbi was born free in Palmares in ______, believed to be descended from the Congo.
  17. Complete the sentence about Dutch Brazil with the correct year: On 26 January ______, the Dutch surrendered and signed the capitulation, but only as a provisional pact.
  18. Complete the sentence about Dutch Brazil with the correct year: By May ______, the Dutch Republic demanded that New Holland be given back.
  19. Complete the sentence about Dutch Brazil with the correct year: On 6 August ______, New Holland was formally ceded to Portugal through the Treaty of The Hague.
  20. Complete the sentence about Dutch Brazil with the correct year: In ______, the twelve-year peace treaty expired and the United Netherlands immediately chartered a Dutch West India Company.
  21. Complete the sentence about Maurice of Nassau with the correct year: The dispute ended with Oldenbarnevelt's arrest and execution by beheading in ______, a controversial act that marked a shift in Mau…
  22. Complete the sentence about Inconfidência Mineira with the correct year: In ______ the events were portrayed in the film Minas Conspiracy directed by Carmen Santos.
  23. Complete the sentence about Tiradentes with the correct year: In ______ after the death of his mother, he went with his father and brothers to the town of São José.
  24. Complete the sentence about Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil with the correct year: The Braganza royal family departed for Brazil just days before Napoleonic forces invaded Portugal on 1 Dec…
  25. Complete the sentence about Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil with the correct year: On 19 November ______, French and Spanish forces invaded Portugal, which was one of Britain's last allies…
  26. Complete the sentence about Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil with the correct year: At the time, John, Prince Regent had been the de facto ruler of Portugal on behalf of his mentally unstabl…
  27. Complete the sentence about Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil with the correct year: In ______, Brazil was a sparsely populated colony, with a little over three million inhabitants.
  28. Complete the sentence about John VI of Portugal with the correct year: In ______, John married Carlota Joaquina of Spain, with whom he had nine children.
  29. Complete the sentence about John VI of Portugal with the correct year: In ______, he succeeded his mother as monarch of the Portuguese Empire, with no real change in his authority, since he already po…
  30. Complete the sentence about John VI of Portugal with the correct year: João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael was born 13 May ______ during the reign of his maternal gr…
  31. Complete the sentence about United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves with the correct year: The dissolution of the United Kingdom was accepted by Portugal and formalized de jure in ______…
  32. Complete the sentence about United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves with the correct year: In the wake of the Liberal Revolution of ______ in Portugal, attempts to compromise the autonomy…
  33. Complete the sentence with the correct year: With the defeat of Napoleon in ______, there were calls for the return of the Portuguese Monarch to Lisbon.
  34. Complete the sentence about United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves with the correct year: After a period of mourning and several delays, the festivities of the acclamation of the new King…
  35. Complete the sentence about Pedro I of Brazil with the correct year: When the country was invaded by French troops in ______, he and his family fled to Portugal's largest and wealthiest colony, Brazil…
  36. Complete the sentence about Pedro I of Brazil with the correct year: The Portuguese government's threat to revoke the political autonomy that Brazil had enjoyed since ______ was met with widespread di…
  37. Complete the sentence about Pedro I of Brazil with the correct year: Pedro I chose the Brazilian side and declared Brazil's independence from Portugal on 7 September ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Pedro I of Brazil with the correct year: On 12 October, he was acclaimed Emperor and by March ______ had defeated all armies loyal to Portugal.
  39. Complete the sentence about Pedro I of Brazil with the correct year: In March ______, Pedro I briefly became king of Portugal before abdicating in favor of his eldest daughter, Dona Maria II.
  40. Complete the sentence about Pedro I of Brazil with the correct year: The situation worsened in ______ when the war in the south resulted in Brazil's loss of Cisplatina.
  41. Complete the sentence about Independence of Brazil with the correct year: Formal recognition by Portugal came with the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, signed in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Independence of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, the French army invaded Portugal, which had refused to participate in the continental blockade against the United K…
  43. Complete the sentence about Independence of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, a liberal revolution broke out in Portugal and the royal family was forced to return to Lisbon.
  44. Complete the sentence about Independence of Brazil with the correct year: The land now called Brazil was claimed by the Kingdom of Portugal in April ______, on the arrival of the Portuguese naval flee…
  45. Complete the sentence about Empire of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, despite his role in Brazilian independence, he became the king of Portugal; he abdicated the Portuguese throne in favor o…
  46. Complete the sentence about Empire of Brazil with the correct year: The territory which would come to be known as Brazil was claimed by Portugal on 22 April ______, when the navigator Pedro Álvares Ca…
  47. Complete the sentence about Empire of Brazil with the correct year: Permanent settlement followed in ______, and for the next 300 years the Portuguese slowly expanded westwards until they had reached…
  48. Complete the sentence about Pedro II of Brazil with the correct year: Pedro was born at 02:30 on 2 December ______ in the Palace of São Cristóvão, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  49. Complete the sentence about Pedro II of Brazil with the correct year: Empress Maria Leopoldina died on 11 December ______, a few days after a stillbirth, when Pedro was a year old.
  50. Complete the sentence about Paraguayan War with the correct year: The war began in late ______, as a result of a conflict between Paraguay and Brazil caused by the Uruguayan War.
  51. Complete the sentence about Paraguayan War with the correct year: Argentina and Uruguay entered the war against Paraguay in ______, and it then became known as the "War of the Triple Alliance".
  52. Complete the sentence about Paraguayan War with the correct year: The guerrilla war lasted for 14 months until president Francisco Solano López was killed in action by Brazilian forces in the Battle o…
  53. Complete the sentence about Paraguayan War with the correct year: Argentine and Brazilian troops occupied Paraguay until ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Lei Áurea with the correct year: By the mid-19th century, the slave population in Brazil was approximately 2-2.5 million, an increase from approximately 1 million enslaved…
  55. Complete the sentence about Lei Áurea with the correct year: In ______, José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, a crucial figure in the Brazilian fight for independence, began advocating for gradual abolit…
  56. Complete the sentence about Lei Áurea with the correct year: The continued import of African slaves into Brazil was made entirely illegal following the British-Brazilian Treaty of ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Lei Áurea with the correct year: The treaty promised British recognition of newly-independent Brazil in exchange for the criminalization of the Brazilian slave trade by ___…
  58. Complete the sentence about Slavery in Brazil with the correct year: Out of the 12 million Africans who were forcibly brought to the western hemisphere, approximately 5.5 million were brought to Brazi…
  59. Complete the sentence about Slavery in Brazil with the correct year: Gold and diamond deposits were discovered in Brazil in ______, which sparked an increase in the importation of enslaved African peo…
  60. Complete the sentence about Slavery in Brazil with the correct year: Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, on 13 May ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Abolitionism in Brazil with the correct year: In March ______, the term of the last treaty signed between Brazil and the United Kingdom expired, and the British government…
  62. Complete the sentence about Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, she entered into an arranged marriage with the French prince Gaston, Count of Eu, with whom she had th…
  63. Complete the sentence about Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, the Brazilian imperial family was overthrown in the military coup that ended the monarchy.
  64. Complete the sentence about Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil with the correct year: Afonso's death in ______, at the age of 2+1⁄2, propelled Isabel to the position of Pedro II's heir presumptive.
  65. Complete the sentence about Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil with the correct year: After his death in ______, Isabel became the definitive heir presumptive as Princess Imperial, the title given to…
  66. Complete the sentence about Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil with the correct year: Isabel began her education on 1 May ______, when she was taught how to read and write by a male instructor, who w…
  67. Complete the sentence about Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil with the correct year: Barral assumed her position on 9 September ______, when Isabel was ten years old.
  68. Complete the sentence about Proclamation of the Republic with the correct year: In ______, thanks to the intervention of the Duke of Caxias, the bishops received an imperial pardon and were released.
  69. Complete the sentence about Deodoro da Fonseca with the correct year: After his election in ______, he stepped down the same year under great political pressure when he dissolved the National Congress…
  70. Complete the sentence about Deodoro da Fonseca with the correct year: Fonseca was born on 5 August ______ in the city of Alagoas in the Empire of Brazil.
  71. Complete the sentence about Deodoro da Fonseca with the correct year: Mendes Fonseca was a military officer in charge of the province of Alagoas in ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Deodoro da Fonseca with the correct year: In ______, he participated in a failed provincial revolt opposing the elevation of Maceió to the provincial capital of Alagoas.
  73. Complete the sentence about Deodoro da Fonseca with the correct year: Júnior believes that the ______ revolt was a traumatizing event for young Deodoro, influencing his later indecision in the days le…
  74. Complete the sentence about Floriano Peixoto with the correct year: In November ______, he rose to the presidency after the resignation of generalissimo Deodoro da Fonseca, the first president of Braz…
  75. Complete the sentence about Old Republic with the correct year: The Constituent Assembly, which drew up the constitution of ______, was divided between two factions.
  76. Complete the sentence with the correct year: To this end, in June ______, the government proposed a law that made vaccination mandatory.
  77. Complete the sentence about Revolta da Vacina with the correct year: The trigger for the revolt was the publication of a bill to regulate the application of the mandatory vaccine in the newspaper A No…
  78. Complete the sentence about Coffee with milk politics with the correct year: Northeastern landowners bitterly opposed rival oligarchs in São Paulo, explaining their role in the Revolution of ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Tenentism with the correct year: In the post-World War I period, Brazil saw its first wave of general strikes and the establishment of the Communist Party in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Tenentism with the correct year: The São Paulo Revolt of ______ was the second tenentist revolt and the largest conflict in the city of São Paulo.
  81. Complete the sentence about 1930 Brazilian coup d'état with the correct year: The Alliance denounced the victory of Prestes in the March ______ presidential election as fraudulent.
  82. Complete the sentence about Getúlio Vargas with the correct year: Born on 19 April ______ in São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, to a powerful local family, Vargas had a short stint in the Brazilian Army be…
  83. Complete the sentence about Getúlio Vargas with the correct year: After returning to the state Legislative Assembly, Vargas led troops during Rio Grande do Sul's ______ civil war.
  84. Complete the sentence about Getúlio Vargas with the correct year: In ______, he led Brazil into World War II on the side of the Allies after being sandwiched between Nazi Germany and the United States…
  85. Complete the sentence about Getúlio Vargas with the correct year: Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was born in São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, on 19 April ______, the third of five sons born to Manuel do Nascim…
  86. Complete the sentence about Estado Novo with the correct year: Vargas had assumed leadership of Brazil following the ______ revolution that ended the First Republic.
  87. Complete the sentence about Estado Novo with the correct year: Vargas first took power as provisional president in ______ following the revolution that ended the First Republic and launched the Second…
  88. Complete the sentence about Estado Novo with the correct year: In early ______, the Constitutionalist Revolution led by the Democratic Party of São Paulo, had failed due to a lack of unity within the…
  89. Complete the sentence about Estado Novo with the correct year: The National Security Law made it possible to suppress Communism and prevent movements such as the Communist Uprising of ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Estado Novo with the correct year: The Estado Novo is considered a precursor to the military dictatorship in Brazil that began with the ______ coup, although the two regime…
  91. Complete the sentence about Estado Novo with the correct year: The Vargas government, on 30 September ______, made public an alleged communist plan aiming to seize the central government, later dubbed…
  92. Complete the sentence about Brazil in World War II with the correct year: Brazil officially entered World War II on August 22, ______, when it declared war against the Axis powers, including Germany a…
  93. Complete the sentence about Brazil in World War II with the correct year: On February 8, ______, Brazil formally joined the Allies upon signing the Declaration by United Nations.
  94. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Expeditionary Force with the correct year: The FEB operated mostly at the platoon level, seeing heavy combat at the arduous Gothic Line and during the ______ fina…
  95. Complete the sentence about Eurico Gaspar Dutra with the correct year: By having fought the Revolution of ______, he was sent to the command of the 11th Cavalry Independent Regiment in Ponta Porã.
  96. Complete the sentence about Eurico Gaspar Dutra with the correct year: Defended the government of President Washington Luís against the rebels of 1930s, but already in ______, fought the Constitutiona…
  97. Complete the sentence about Eurico Gaspar Dutra with the correct year: On 18 September ______, the fifth constitution of Brazil was enacted, marking the country's return to democratic rule.
  98. Complete the sentence about Juscelino Kubitschek with the correct year: Born in Diamantina, Kubitschek completed the humanities course at the Diamantina Seminary and moved to Belo Horizonte in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Juscelino Kubitschek with the correct year: Kubitschek briefly served as a federal deputy, before losing his seat during the ______ Brazilian coup.
  100. Complete the sentence about Jânio Quadros with the correct year: Quadros was born in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, on January 25, ______, to Gabriel Quadros and Leonor da Silva Quadros.

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