Key Terms
Key People
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100
This is a poor, Latin American farmer.
What is a campesino?
100
This man was the liberator of northern Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
100
Latin America was divided up for these two countries.
What are Spain and Portugal?
100
This event was the first in the fight for freedom in Latin America.
What is the Night of Fire?
100
This happened when the price of oil rose in the 1980s in many Latin American countries.
What is they borrowed a lot of money?
200
This is a strict military officer.
What is a caudillo?
200
This man led the "Cry of Dolores" in Mexico.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
200
This is what the Spanish explorers hoped to find in Latin America.
What is gold?
200
These two revolutions sparked the Night of Fire.
What are the American and French Revolutions?
200
This is why foreign companies have a lot of power in Latin America.
What is they invest in Latin American countries?
300
This is someone with Spanish parents but he/she was born outside of Spain.
What is a criollo?
300
This man was the liberator of southern Peru, Argentina, and Chile.
Who is Jose de San Martin?
300
These were Spain's two most important colonies in the New World.
What are New Spain and Peru?
300
This was the most unusual thing about how Brazil got its independence.
What is without war?
300
This is how some Latin American countries are limiting foreign investment.
What is by preventing foreign companies from owning too much land?
400
This was the right to demand taxes and/or labor from the Natives in the New World granted to Spanish settlers by the Spanish government.
What is an encomienda?
400
This man declared Mexico independent from Spain.
Who is Agustin de Iturbide?
400
This was set in place by the Treaty of Tordesillas to divide the New World.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
400
Brazil got its independence from this European nation.
What is Portugal?
400
This is why most countries in Latin America did not trade with one another.
What is they produced the same goods?
500
This is a Spanish owned plantation in the New World.
What is a hacienda?
500
______ conquered the Aztec in 1521 and ______ conquered the Inca in 1535.
Who are Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro?
500
This is how Cortes able to get some Native American groups to join his side in the fight against the Aztec.
What is the natives were already enemies against the Aztec?
500
Most caudillos who ruled Latin America after its independence ruled like this.
What is with concern only for power and wealth?
500
This is why many Latin Americans have moved from the countryside to the cities.
What is to find better jobs?
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