History quiz

Exercises on the War of the Emboabas - with feedback

Question 01 - IBMEC 2006 - The Emboabas War was:
a) a confrontation between Pernambuco planters, concentrated in Olinda, and Portuguese merchants from Recife, pejoratively called emboabas, who fought for the emancipation of Recife.
b) a revolt of the urban layers of Vila Rica, under the leadership of Felipe dos Santos, against the fiscal policy of the Portuguese Crown and the installation of the Casa da Fundição.
c) an uprising of Islamized African slaves in the city of Salvador, called emboabas by slave masters, in favor of the total liberation of slaves in the province of Bahia.
d) a conflict between paulistas (emboabas) and portuguese for control of diamond mines and gold fields in the region of Mato Grosso, which ended with the defeat of the Paulistas and control of the Portuguese Crown.
e) a conflict that took place in the region of Minas Gerais over the dispute over control of the gold mines between São Paulo pioneers and a group formed by Portuguese and people from other cities. apitanias, called by the paulistas of emboabas.
Question 02 - UNICAMP 2011 - Emboaba:indigenous name that means “the foreigner”, attributed to outsiders by the Paulistas, the first settlers of the mining region. With the discovery of gold at the end of the 17th century, thousands of people from the colony and the metropolis came to the mines, causing great riots. Two factions were formed, Paulistas and Emboabas, which disputed the government of the territory, trying to impose their own laws. (Adapted from Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva (coord.), Dictionary of the History of Portuguese Colonization in Brazil. Lisboa:Verbo, 1994, p. 285.) Regarding the period in question, it is correct to state that:a) The disputes over the Emboaba territory put the Paulistas and miners in confrontation, who fought for the possession and exploitation of the mines. b) The mining region has been politically convulsed since its formation, at the end of the 17th century, which explains the local resistance to the mining inconfidentes. c) The struggle of the Emboabas illustrates the process of conquest of frontiers by the Portuguese empire in the Americas, while in Africa the Portuguese withdrew definitively in the 18th century. d) The Portuguese monarchy administered distinct territories and several social subjects, many of them in dispute with each other, such as Paulistas and Emboabas, both subjects of the Crown.
Question 03 - Itame - 2015 - Padre Bernardo City Hall - GO - Contador - Between 1708 and 1709 the state of Minas Gerais was the scene of a conflict marked by the dispute for Gold. This war was based on the conflict between São Paulo pioneers and outsiders who sought wealth from precious metals. This conflict became known as:(A) War of Emboabas. (B) Mining Inconfidence. (C) Uprising of Vila Rica. (D) Guerra Mata Maroto.

Question 04 - PC-GO - 2012 - “Here we were completely suspicious, convinced that Anhanguera wanted us to end up in the middle of those woods.”
BRAGA, J. P. Goianas memories - the flag of Anhanguera to Goyaz, in 1722. Goiânia:Editora da UCG, 1982. p . 13. The quoted text refers to the conflict between the Portuguese ensign Silva e Braga and the paulista Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, during the Bandeira, which was the harbinger of the systematic exploitation of gold mining in the so-called Minas do Goyazes. This conflict expressed a mutual distrust that had been fueled a) by the skirmishes between São Paulo and Portuguese over the possession of the mines in the Emboabas War.
b) by the Portuguese refusal to allow the São Paulo pioneers to enslave indigenous people.
c ) by the desire of the Portuguese to remove the discovered mines from the administrative tutelage of the Paulistas.
d) by the religious disputes between Paulistas and Jesuits regarding the concubinage with indigenous women.

Question 05 - Machado de Assis Institute - Municipality of Paulistana-PI -
The paulistas, discoverers of gold in Minas Gerais, felt they had the right to explore it exclusively. However, many Portuguese coming from the metropolis or from other parts of the colony also wanted to seize the discovered deposits. About the facts that occurred in the Emboabas war. Mark the INCORRECT alternative.
A) Tension grew when the people of São Paulo began to control the supply of goods to the mining region.
B) Many in the colony called the Portuguese emboabas, a word of Tupi origin that meant “birds”. with covered feet”:a reference to the boots they wore, in contrast to the mestizos paulistas das Bandeiras, who walked barefoot.
C) The conflict ended in 1709, in the so-called Capão da Traição, when many paulistas were killed by an army emboaba from about a thousand men, commanded by Bento do Amaral Coutinho.
D) The main chief of the Emboabas was Manuel NunesViana, a rich rancher from the São Francisco River region who led troops against the Paulistas, defeating them in Sabará and Cachoeira do Campo.

Question 06 - Instituto Machado de Assis 2014 - City Hall of Paes Landim-PI -
The struggle between Paulistas and outsiders for the possession of the gold mines became known by the name:(A) War of the Peddlers.
(B) War of the Farrapos.
(C) Revolt of Beckman.
(D) War of the Emboabas.

Question 07 - ADVISE 2009 - The confrontation that resulted in a bloody massacre known as “Capão da Traição” is part of which episode of the colonial period?
A) War of the Emboabas.
B) Felipe dos Santos Revolt
C ) Bahia Conjuration.
D) Mining Conjuration.
E) Pernambuco Revolution.

Question 08 - Machado de Assis Institute 2016 - Maracaçumé-MA City Hall -
The War of the Emboabas is little studied in history because there are not so many records at the time, thinking that from this assumption, mark the alternative that correctly points out the reasons for the war:
(A) Through the Flags were discovered gold deposits in the region of Minas Gerais, the paulistas, being the discoverers and first to arrive, thought themselves exclusive owners of these lands, but the news spread and several Portuguese and foreigners came after riches from all sides of the colony, this generated unrest culminating in armed conflict.
(B) It was a conflict between São Paulo and invaders of the territory by the colonists of the Latin regions, on the one hand there were those who thought it was their right to privileged exploitation of the deposits, on the other a heavily armed group interested in riches without respecting any royal agreement, ended with the departure of the Paulistas from the region.
(C) The scarcity of records is due to the fact that the armed conflict that What happened involved fires in official government buildings, where all information such as values, transport of raw materials and equipment, sense of region residents, in addition to the usual records of social changes in the region were stored.
(D) The soil of the region Mineira was considered at the time the richest and most productive, this generated preferences on the part of those who were living in the colony the longest. The Paulistas claimed ownership of these lands for themselves, and the Portuguese people who lived here also demanded. The latter were richer, had prestige deposition and had military strength, so the Paulistas were expelled to less fertile lands.

Question 09 - UNIFENAS 2003 - Although they were regional movements, the nativist rebellions put Brazilians against metropolitan interests. One of them was motivated by the dispute over the domain and possession of gold mines in Minas Gerais.
The text refers to:
a) Inconfidência Mineira.
b) Vila Rica Revolt.
>c) War of the Emboabas.
d) War of the Muscats.
e) uprising of São João Del Rey.

GABARITO
01 - E
02 - D
03 - A
04 - A
05 - A
06 - D
07 - A
08 - A
09 - C