Latin America History Review

Transatlantic Slave Trade

100

Transatlantic slave trade is...

Movement of slaves across the middle passage from Africa to the Americas 

200

2 reasons it was easy for the Europeans to conquer the Indigenous populations. 

Advanced weapons & spreading of diseases 

300

1 effect of slavery on Latin America today

Many Latin Americans have ancestors from Africa 

400

Slavery helped to build the counties of L.A., but much of the wealth went to the Europeans. One effect of this situations is: 

Many L.A. countries are very poor. 

500

How Europeans become so wealthy when conquering the Americas

They brought slaves from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations as free labor. 

Columbian Exchange

100

Columbian exchange is: 

Exchange of ideas, goods, people, animals, diseases from the Old World to the New World and vice versa. 

200

Negative result of the Columbian Exchange

Disease wiped out at least 50% of the natives. 

300

Most widely spread religion in Latin America

Roman Catholic Christianity 

400

Mix of Indigenous & Europeans

Mestizo 

500

Mix of African & European

Mulatto

Cuban Revolution

100

Leader of Cuba as a direct result of the Cuban Revolution

Fidel Castro

200

The event where Castro allowed the Soviet Union to place nuclear missiles in Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis 

300

The Cuban Revolution resulted in ______________ for the Cuban people. 

Fewer freedoms 

400

Fidel Castro promised these three things to the people who supported him during the Cuban Revolution.

Better Education

Better Healthcare

Women's Rights 

Equality for Black Cubans

500

Government relations have eased, but there are still some restrictions describes what? 

The current relationship between the US and Cuba

Poverty, War on Drugs, Migration

100

Area that supplies the most crops for the illegal drug trade. 

Andean Region

200

Most illegal drugs that ENTER the U.S. come through which COUNTRY? 

Mexico

300

Cause of extreme poverty in Latin America

Lack of employment opportunities 

400

This is a way Latin American governments could stop the cycle of poverty

Invest in human capital 

500

People who immigrate from Mexico to the U.S. do so because they want to ______. 

Have more economic opportunities for themselves and their families 

Vocabulary

100

Sudden overthrow of a ruler or government

Coup

200

the illegal smuggling of people or products (especially drugs or weapons)

Narco-terrorism 

300

Cuba become a ___________ country AFTER the Cuban Revolution

communist dictatorship

400

Poor education, poor healthcare, population growth, political instability, being born into poverty all contribute to what? 

Cycle of poverty in Latin America 

500

the act of going from one region  to another

Migration