European Influences
What is the main language spoken in Brazil?
What is Portuguese
What are the indigenous people of Latin America?
Who are People that are native or originally from Latin America (Aztecs, Incas, Mayas).
What type of government was Cuba?
What is Communist
What is the Cartel?
What is a group which dominates the trade of a specific product or service.
What mountain range is found in Mexico?
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains.
What is the main language spoken in most of Latin America?
What is Spanish
What country imported the most slaves?
What is Brazil
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is a Cold War event (1962) where the Soviet Union (Russia), with the help of Fidel Castro, placed ballistic missiles on Cuba which were able to reach the United States.
Why has the War on Drugs been unsuccessful?
What is government corruption has been a barrier as some South American government officials profit illegally from the drug trade. The area is also rural and underdeveloped.
What are the main areas that make up Latin America?
What are Mexico & Central America, The Caribbean, and South America
Which two countries influenced Latin American culture the most?
What are Spain and Portugal
From which continent were enslaved people brought over to Latin America.
What is Africa (Specifically West Africa)
The former communist dictator of Cuba who overthrew Fulgencio Batista in the 1959 Cuban Revolution
Who is Fidel Castro
What region of Latin America is know for drug farming, manufacturing, and trafficking?
What is Andean Region (Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia)
How many dogs does Ms. Helvey have?
What is 7 dogs
What religion was spread throughout Latin America by Spain and Portugal?
What is Roman Catholic
Why did Europeans stop using the Indigenous population for labor? Who did they replace the Indigenous people with?
What is they died from European diseases because they had no immunity to it. They replaced Africans because they had immunity to the European diseases.
What was the US reaction when Cuba became a communist country and adopted the same ideals as the Soviet Union?
What is the US felt threatened and angry.
What are 2 reasons Latin Americans migrate to the US?
What is better Jobs (money), Improve lives for themselves and family, Safer living conditions
What is Mr. G's favorite color
What is Red
What was exchanged between the Old World and the New World during the Columbian Exchange?
What are Plants, animals, technologies, ideas, and diseases.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
What is the enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries; associated terms include the triangular trade and the middle passage across the Atlantic.
What was the significance of Cuba's location during the Cold War? What role did this play during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is Cuba is very close to the United States, so when Cuba became Communist, Americans feared communism would spread easily to the United States. The missiles could easily reach the US.
What are at least 3 factors/reasons that lead to poverty in Latin America?
What are limited education opportunities, Lack of Jobs available, Extreme population growth and not enough resources, Political instability, and Inadequate healthcare
What is Ms. Owens favorite cartoon? (Nickelodeon)
What is Spongebob Squarepants