Geography
Any raw material or agricultural product that is bought and sold.
What is a commodity?
Process of working with and using goods and ideas from various parts of the world.
What is globalization?
Castro and Batista.
Who were the two key individuals associated with the Cuban Revolution?
Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.
What are the factors for economic growth?
In a presidential system, the executive branch is separate from the legislature. In a parliamentary system, the Prime Minster is chosen from the legislature.
What is the difference between a presidential and a parliamentary system of government?
Location, climate, and natural resources.
What three things affect where people live and work?
The first Latin American country to accomplish a successful slave revolt and independence.
John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev.
Who were the US and Soviet leaders during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Focusing on producing one or two goods really well.
Specialization.
Individual citizens' rights are limited and controlled by the government.
What is a dictatorship?
Cattle ranching.
Work on plantations.
How were African slaves utilized in the Latin American colonies?
The US eased trade restrictions with Cuba.
In 2016, what changed in the US-Cuban trade relationship?
United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What are the member countries of NAFTA?
The President can only serve one 6-year term in office.
How is Mexico's government different from the US government?
Bolivia and Paraguay.
What two countries are landlocked?
As the industries that required slaves grew, so did the number of slaves.
How did African slaves influence the development of the Americas?
Cuba became a communist country which resulted in less political and economic freedom.
How did the Cuban Revolution change Cuba?
Increase trade between the member countries by creating a large, free-trade zone.
What is the primary purpose of NAFTA?
They require citizens 18-70 years old to vote.
How is Brazil's government different from the US government?
Urban areas.
Where do most people choose to live in Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico?
Indigenous Americans, Europeans, and Africans.
What diverse ethnic groups are found in Latin America?
The Soviet Union.
Which country helped Cuba develop as a communist country after the Cuban Revolution?
The higher the literacy rate, the greater the GDP.
How does a country's literacy rate impact its GDP?
A union of self-governing states which are joined together by a central government.
What is a federal system of government?