Geography
Capitols
Heritage
Transition
US Influence
100
The historical home of the Incas which run the length of western South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
100
The capitol of Chile.
What is Santiago?
100
Latin American people of mixed European and Indian descent.
What are mestizos?
100
A doctrine that called on the church to take a more active role in changing the conditions that contributed to poverty.
What is liberation theology?
100
The Latin American country whose residents enjoy U.S. citizenship.
What is Puerto Rico?
200
A land locked country in Latin America.
What is Bolivia or Paraguay?
200
Managua.
What is the capitol of Nicaragua?
200
An early civilization that built complex irrigation systems and a vast network of roads.
What are the Incas?
200
A creole leader who led independence movements in Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia, and Bolivia.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
200
The policy established by FDR that sought better relations with Latin America.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
300
An area that contains one half of the worlds rain forrest.
What is the Amazon Basin?
300
The capitol of Cuba.
What is Havana?
300
An early civilization that had abandoned its cities by the time Europeans made it to the Americas.
What are the Mayans?
300
A revolt, often by military leaders, against a nations government.
What is a coup d'etat?
300
The new nation whose revolution was encouraged by the U.S. under President Teddy Roosevelt.
What is Panama?
400
It begins in Peru and makes a winding 4,000 mile journey to the east.
What is the Amazon River?
400
Quito.
What is the capitol of Ecuador?
400
The global spread of people, ideas, and goods between the old and new world.
What is the Columbian exchange?
400
The largest land owners prior to modernization. The largest land owners after modernization.
What are the peninsulares and multinational corporations?
400
The policy used by the U.S. to try to force Castro's Cuban dictatorship to reform.
What is a trade embargo?
500
The two countries that share a border on the island of Hispaniola.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
500
The capitol of Bolivia.
What is Sucre?
500
The capitol city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)?
500
One of the primary ways leftist or socialist groups wanted to redistribute wealth.
What is land reform?
500
The country in which the U.S. has aided contras in a guerilla war against the Sandinista government.
What is Nicaragua?
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