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100
This is what Central Americans use their best land for.
What is a plantation?
100
A ruler who has total control over a country.
What is a dictator?
100
Because of a lack of minerals such as coal, nations in Central America and the Caribbean lack this industry.
What is manufacturing?
100
Largest island nation in Caribbean Sea.
What is Cuba?
100
Type of music that developed from the music that enslaved Africans sang while they worked.
What is calypso?
200
An economy that depends on a single crop for income.
What is a one-crop economy?
200
System of government in which the government controls the economy and way of life.
What is communism?
200
Because Central America and the Caribbean Islands have many beaches, this industry is an important part of the economy.
What is tourism?
200
Northernmost country in Central America.
What is Belize?
200
An instrument used when playing calypso music.
What is the steel drum?
300
A religious group that is outside the mainstream of large, organized religions.
What is a sect?
300
Dictator who ruled Cuba from 1959-2008.
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
Caribbean country that the United States has not traded good with for the past number of decades.
What is Cuba?
300
Island straight east of the Dominican Republic.
What is Puerto Rico?
300
A mix of American pop and calypso.
What is reggae?
400
Meaning "peak dwellers", this word refers to African slaves who escaped and set up their own colony on Jamaica.
Who are the Maroons?
400
Type of government that most Central American and Caribbean nations have.
What is representative or republic?
400
Although sharing the same island as the Dominican Republic, this country's economy has struggled greatly.
What is Haiti?
400
Country southwest of Honduras.
What is El Salvador?
400
Two popular sports of Central American and the Caribbean Islands.
What are soccer and baseball?
500
A self-governing territory.
What is a commonwealth?
500
A self-governing territory.
What is a commonwealth?
500
Trade restrictions placed on a country.
What are sanctions/embargo?
500
Of the Central American countries that border the Caribbean Sea, this country has the shortest coastline.
What is Guatemala?
500
The three streams of people who lived in Central America and the Caribbean?
Who are Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans?