The Caribbean Coast is home to many people of African descent, who were brought to Central America as slaves in the early ______.
What are the 1500s?
100
Government buys land from rich and gives it to the poor.
What is land redistribution?
200
San Salvador
What is the capital of El Salvador?
200
_________ provided labor to the Spanish and helped build haciendas.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
These physical features makes it difficult to travel from North America to South America through the isthmus.
What are mountain ranges?
200
This Spanish adventurer marched into Tenotchtitlan in 1519 and conquered it by 1521.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community.
What is edijos?
300
Belmopan is the capital of this country.
What is Belize?
300
These people became resentful of the peninsulares are decided to rebel.
Who are the Criollo?
300
This side of Central America receives more than 80 inches of rain a year, the soil is not very fertile, and it is difficult to grow a wide variety of crops.
What is the eastern side?
300
In 1979-1992 _________ faced a civil war because the rich feared the ever growing poor population and hired “death squads” to help eliminate political opponents who wanted reform.
What is El Salvador?
300
A narrow strip of land, with water on both sides, that connects two larger bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
400
The capital of Costa Rica.
What is San Jose?
400
This Spanish priest led the rebellion against Spanish rule and sparked the war of independence.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
400
The largest freshwater lake, which is home to some ocean creatures like sharks, is located in this country.
What is Nicaragua?
400
____________took over in 1979, started a socialist rule, moved toward communism, people overthrew them, now they use free election to vote people into power.
Who are Sandistas?
400
Factories that assemble products almost exclusively for consumers in the US.
What are maquiladoras?
500
Kingston
What is the capital of Jamaica?
500
Mexico gained independence in this year.
What is 1821?
500
_____% of the population in Costa Rica is European.
What is 90?
500
In 1910, ______________ led a rebellion against Porfirio Diaz. The revolution lasted 10 years and ended in 1920