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100
The type of government in Cuba is this.
What is communist?
100
Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of this country
What is the United States?
100
The first president in recent history to be elected democratically
Who is Aristide?
100
a ruler who has complete power
Who is a dictator?
100
Cuba was once a colony of this country
What is Spain?
200
The name of Cuba's dictator
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
Even though Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States, they do not do these two important things.
What are pay taxes to the U.S. and vote in U.S. presidential elections?
200
The capital of Haiti
What is Port-au-Prince?
200
A statement of a country's basic laws and values
What is a constitution?
200
The Soviet Union broke up in this year leading to more economic hardships in Cuba
What was 1991?
300
The leader of Cuba before Fidel Castro
Who was Fulgencio Batista?
300
Some Puerto Ricans call themselves this, refetering to the indigenous farming people who lived on the island before the Spanish arrived.
What is "Boricuas"?
300
Two of the worst Haitian dictators from the 1950's-1970's.
Who were Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) and Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc)?
300
Different versions of a language that is spoken in a particular region
What is a dialect?
300
A slave revolt led by this man eventually led to independence in Haiti
Who was Toussaint L'Overture?
400
Examples of items that became scarce after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What are food, medicine, and tools?
400
True/ False Puerto Ricans have voted several times not to become a state of the United States.
True
400
Two thirds of Haitian people make their living doing this
What is farming?
400
Government that owns all large businesses and most of the country's land
What is communist?
400
Many Cuban immigrants to the United States settle in this this state
What is Florida?
500
True or False. Many Cubans today are illiterate
False
500
In Puerto Rico, most people live in these
What is the cities?
500
The dialect spoken in Haiti based on the French and African languages.
What is Creole?
500
A word referring to people of mixed ancestry or to the dialect spoken in Haiti
What is Creole?
500
Cuba became a communist country in this decade
What is the early 1960s?