Slave Trade
Influences
Independence Movements
Cuba
Zapatistas
100
Where did most Europeans find cheap labor to work on plantations in Latin America?
What is Africa
100
What two languages are spoken in Latin America today?
What is Portuguese and Spanish
100
Simon Bolivar was known as the liberator of what country?
What is Venezuela
100
Who took over Cuba in 1959?
Who is Fidel Castro
100
Who are the political attackers that support the indigenous group in Mexico?
Who are the Zapatistas
200
What crop were most slaves used to harvest?
What is Sugarcane
200
What is the main religion in Latin America today?
What is Catholic
200
Which country's revolution encouraged Bolivar?
What is France
200
Fidel Castro created what type of economy in Cuba?
What is communism
200
Where are the Zapatistas?
Where is Mexcio
300
What is one effect that influences Latin America today in regards to the slave trade?
What is ancestory from Africa (having African ancestors)
300
Most people speak spanish or portuguese for what reason?
What is Spanish and Portuguese colonization in Latin America
300
Miguel Hidalgo was known as the father of independence for which country?
What is Mexico
300
Which country became an important ally for Cuba between 1959-1991?
What is the Soviet Union
300
What do the Zapatistas fight for?
What is better housing, land ownership, better healthcare, better education
400
What is the term for the trade of guns, rum, slaves, and crops between Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
What is the Triangular Trade
400
Why did most people in Latin America learn to speak Portuguese and Spanish?
What is the Government (all laws and documents were converted to Spanish and Portuguese)
400
What was Hidalgo's profession?
What is a Priest
400
When Castro began taking land and factories, what was the American reaction?
What is placing an Embargo on Cuba
400
What policy was the Zapatistas against?
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
500
What is an effect of slavery in Latin America which is shown today in Latin American economies?
What is poverty (most countries are poor due to wealth being sent back to European countries)
500
What is a lasting effect of Colonization in Latin America?
What is most people speak spanish or Portuguese and practice Catholicism.
500
What goal did Touissant L'Ouverture want to achieve?
What is Freedom for Haiti
500
What event almost caused a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
500
What did the Zapatistas do to show they did not support trade with the U.S. and Canada?
What is attacked government troops in Mexico City
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