Term given to people of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
What is mestizo?
100
This social class typically led the independence movements.
What are the creoles?
100
Policy set so that Europe could no longer acquire colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
1962 threat of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
These are the highest mountains in Latin America.
What are the Andes?
200
The highest social class in Latin America.
What is peninsular?
200
Many Latin American nations struggled after independence because _____ prevented unification.
What are geographic barriers?
200
1846-1848 conflict over what is now the southwestern United States.
What is the Mexican War?
200
American troops landed here to to try and overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
This is the largest river in Latin America, and links the eastern and western part of South America.
What is the Amazon?
300
The system of ____ made the colonies economically dependent on the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
300
After the revolutions of the nineteenth century, most Latin American nations established this type of government.
What is democratic?
300
1898 conflict over the Caribbean Islands.
What is the Spanish-American War?
300
This gave the United States the right to intervene with all Cuban affairs after independence.
What is the Platt Amendment?
400
The region of Latin America was most influenced by...
What are the Spanish and Portuguese?
400
This treaty between Spain and Portugal drew a line through South America, claiming all lands west of the line belonged to Spain, and all lands east of the line belonged to Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
This event changed US interaction with Latin America.
What is the building of the Panama Canal?
400
Stated that no other nations had the right to interfere in the affairs of another.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
400
This president authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion and his successor, ___________, enforced it.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy?
500
This is responsible for the development of "regionalism" throughout Latin America.
What are geographic barriers?
500
The three reasons why the Spanish were able to defeat the Native Americans so quickly.
What is guns, germs, and steel?
500
This revolutionary was nicknamed the "Liberator."
Who was Simon Bolivar?
500
Program that offered Latin American nations aid in exchange for reforms.