Geography
Central America
Caribbean
Panama Canal
United Fruit Company
100
A narrow piece of land that connects two larger bodies of land
What is an isthmus?
100
The man made trade route that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal
100
The economy is based on these two areas
What is 1. Tourism 2. Agriculture (Cash Crops/One Crop economies)
100
The year the Americans began constructing the Panama Canal
What is 1904
100
This company established a monopoly on the production and distribution of ____________ in Latin America
What is bananas
200
A large group of islands
What is an archipelago
200
Three environmental problems facing this region
1. Water Shortages, 2. Pollution (Pesticides/Runoff), 3. Deforestation, 4. Loss of Wildlife 5. Loss of Habitat 6. Loss of medicinal plants
200
The largest ethnic group in Central America and the Caribbean
What are Mestizos?
200
The President who had the Canal constructed
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
200
The capital of the United Fruit Company empire was in
What is Bananera, Guatemala
300
The Greater Antilles countries
What is Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Domincan Republic)
300
The 7 Central American countries
What is Belize El Salvador Guatemala Costa Rica Panama Honduras Nicaragua
300
The biggest religion in this region is
What is Roman Catholic Church (90%)
300
The biggest killers at the Panama Canal
What is Yellow Fever and Malaria
300
The United Fruit Company paid its employees in this currency
What is United Fruit Company dollars/food stamps
400
A rare ecosystem, with moist clouds near the ground, occurs in high elevation tropical forest where low clouds are common.
What is a Cloud Forest
400
The year the Panama Canal opened
What is 1914
400
Popular religion in Cuba that mixes the Roman Catholic Church and West African beliefs
What is Santeria?
400
The country that the US helped Panama gain its independence from
What is Columbia
400
Year and country the Banana Massacre took place
What is 1928, Cienaga, Columbia
500
Stretches from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago
What are the Lesser Antilles
500
The five countries who joined the ill fated United Provinces of Central America
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua
500
A popular religion in Jamaica, combines Christianity with the belief that the former emperor of Ethiopia descended from Israel’s king Solomon and was divine
What is Rastafarian
500
The Frenchman who attempted constructing the Canal in the 1880s
Who Ferdinand DeLesseps
500
Describe the events of the Banana Massacre
-Planned by the 30,000 workers of the United Fruit Company for better working conditions -An unknown number of workers died after the government decided to send the Colombian army to end a month-long strike organized by the workers' union in order to secure better working conditions.