What is a ruler of a country who has complete power?
100
Creole
What is a person (often of European and African descent) born in the Caribbean or other parts of the Americas, whose culture has strong FRENCH and AFRICAN influence; ALSO a dialect spoken by Creoles.
100
Citizen
What is an individual with certain rights and responsibilities under a particular government?
100
Cuba's economy suffered.
What is the effect on Cuba when the Soviet Union collapsed since the Soviets sent money and supplies to Cuba.
100
Sugar plantations and tourism - hotels built, beautiful beaches and climate.
What are the reasons Cuba became the richest country in the Caribbean after winning independence from Spain in the Spanish-American war of 1898?
200
Communist
What is having an economic system in which the government owns all large businesses and most of a country's land?
200
Dialect
What is a version of a language that is spoken in a particular region?
200
Commonwealth
What is a self-governing political unit with strong ties to a particular country?
200
Stealing government funds, using violence to keep power.
What are the ways Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier turned Haiti into the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere?
200
Overuse, trees cut and not replanted, topsoil washing into the ocean.
Why can't farmers make a living in Haiti?
300
Exile
What is a person who leaves or is forced to leave his/her homeland for another country?
300
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Who is the leader who helped banish slavery from Haiti in 1801 and offered Haitians a new way of life based on equality and freedom?
300
Constitution
What is a statement of a country's basic laws and values?
300
U.S. Citizens, but can't vote in presidential elections, don't pay income taxes, and a non-voting representative in the U.S. Congress.
What are the limits of Puerto Rican citizenship?
300
African, French and West Indian (Caribbean)
What cultures blend in Haiti called Creole.
400
Illiterate
What is unable to read or write?
400
Francois Duvalier
Who was the worst dictator who came to power in 1957 known as "Papa Doc?"
400
Condado
What is the large waterfront area with many hotels and restaurants in San Juan called?
400
U.S. businesses there have raised the standard of living and the U.S. government sends millions of dollars to the island to help people.
What are ways Puerto Rico benefits from its commonwealth status with the U.S.?
400
Miami
Where do a lot of Cuban and Haitian exiles live?
500
Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro
Who was Cuba's dictator in the 1950s and who formed a rebel group to overthrow him and start a Communist government?
500
Jean Bertrand Aristide
Who is the priest who was elected president after a series of military rulers, served for 7 months, was overthrown by the military, went into exile and later returned to rule?
500
Commonwealth/Statehood/Independence
What are the three options Puerto Rico has in relationship to the U.S.?
500
Haiti.
What is the only nation in the Americas formed from a successful revolt of enslaved Africans.