Political
The Phillippines, Puerto Rico, Guam
What are the countries that ceded from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American war?
Gavilleros
Who were the guerilla fighters who fought against the US in the Dominican Republic?
Banana Republic
What is a country that economically relies on a single crop, most commonly bananas?
the main fruit cultivated in latin america throughout the 19th and 20th centuries
What are bananas?
the most recent American military intervention in Latin America
The Monroe Doctrine
What is the document used to justify american intervention in Latin America?
Plantation towns
What were the towns built around banana plantations where workers lived?
The "currency" plantation workers were paid with
What is scrip
the disease that wiped out most banana crops in the 1950s
What is Panama Disease?
the mostly extinct species of banana that was the dominant variety during the banana wars
what are Gros Michel bananas?
The Roosevelt corollary
What is the addition to the Monroe doctrine that strengthened and legitimized it?
Yellow journalism
What was the practice of sensationalized headlines and reporting about overseas events?
Total economic control over a certain market
What is a monopoly?
the act of clearing large swaths of land of forest and wildlife
What is deforestaion?
the new and improved names of the still active United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company
What are Chiquita and Dole?
The Good Neighbor policy
What is the policy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which focused on anti-intervention and mutual respect?
Increased risk of cancer and birth defects
What were the effects of pesticides on plantation workers?
the two corporations who held a ton of power in most of latin America during the banana wars
What are the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company?
the cultivation of one single crop in a certain are
what is monoculture farming?
the field guide developed for the marines during the banana wars
what is the small wars manual?
Who was William Mckinley
the practice of overworking and underpaying native workers
what is labor exploitation?
A term used to describe governments controlled by large international corporations
What is a corporatocracy?
the effect of pesticide runoff in the ocean
what is coral bleaching?
the number of bananas used on our slides
what are 38 bananas?