Conquistadors
Spanish word for conqueror.
What is a conquistador?
A sudden violent change in government
What is revolution?
Cuban Revolutionary
Who was Fidel Castro?
Large territory under one ruler
What is an empire?
Became independent from Portugal without bloodshed.
What is Brazil?
Gold
What were the Spanish (or conquistadors) looking for?
Led the fight for independence in Ecuador, Columbia and Bolivia.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
Government in Cuba
What is communism?
Percentage of adults in a society who can read and write.
What is literacy rate?
US promised not to send troops into Latin America.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
Attacked the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Liberated Argentina and Chile from Spanish rule.
Who was Jose de San Martin?
Led slave revolt in Haiti.
Who was Francois-Dominique Toussanint-Louverture? (Only need last name)
The amount of money a government owes.
What is National Debt?
Diseases killed many Native Americans.
What are measles and smallpox?
Conquered the Incas.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
Catholic priest who urged poor Mexicans to fight for freedom - 2 word name
Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
Only nation ever created by a revolt on enslaved people.
What is Haiti?
Language spoken in Latin America.
What is Spanish?
Brought slaves to America, crops to Europe and guns, and gold to Africa.
What is the Triangle Trade?
Mexican general, he attacked the Alamo.
Who was Santa Anna?
Catholic priest who urged poor Mexicans to fight for freedom - 3 word name
Who was Jose Maria Morales?
African Americans form a large percent of the population in the Caribbean Islands.
Europeans brought enslaved Africans as slaves. (Sorry could figure out how to make this a question.)
Main religion of Latin America.
What is Roman Catholic?
The US helped Panama win its freedom from Columbia.
Why did Panama allow the US to build the Panama Canal?