Triangular Trade
What is the primary difference between the Columbian Exchange and the Triangular Trade route?
Slaves from Africa were introduced during the Triangular Trade.
Who was the "president" of Cuba in 1958?
Fulgencio Batista
What is the main language spoken and religion practiced in Latin America today? Why?
Spanish – Spain colonized most of the area
The drug war on narcotics production is most pronounced in which region of Latin America?
Andean
The southern border of the U.S.- Mexico boundary has faced hardships in recent years due largely to, what?
smuggling and trafficking of illegal drugs and people.
What was a main reason African slaves were brought to Latin America during colonial times?
Europeans needed workers and most indigenous people were killed by European diseases
Who led the rebel forces that overthrew the Cuban government in 1959?
Fidel Castro
What is the most common religion of Latin America?
Roman Catholic (Christianity)
Which Latin American country do drug traffickers use to funnel drugs into the U.S.?
Mexico
Citizen participation has lessened in Cuba as a result of Fidel Castro's installation of which type of government?
Autocratic
Within a century of the conquests in Latin America by Spain and Portugal, the native population had declined considerably from battle and disease. To offset this loss of labor, Spain and Portugal
imported slaves from Africa.
What was the Cuban missile crisis?
Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at US
Latin American populations are made up of a mixture of foreign and indigenous peoples. Name one of these indigenous peoples.
Maya, Aztec, or Inca
What is the name given to drug gangs throughout Latin America?
Drug cartels
What three things were “traded” in the Columbian Exchange?
Plants, animals, and diseases
What is the difference between a plantation and an hacienda?
a plantation produced crops for money while an hacienda produced crops for colonists.
What type of "government" did Fidel Castro bring to Cuba?
Communist
Which Latin American country’s language and culture is greatly influenced by Portugal?
Brazil
What is the result of the war on drugs and lack of economic opportunities in Latin America?
Many Latinos have emigrated to the U.S. in search of safer living conditions and stabler work environments.
Following Columbus' voyage to the "New World," many things were introduced to areas of the world. What animal was introduced to the new world by europeans?
horse
Describe the traveling conditions of the Middle Passage?
chained close together in the bottom of the ship,
cramped, unsanitary conditions
Why did the United States impose an embargo against Cuba in 1959?
to punish Cuba for allying with the Soviet Union
From what language family does Spanish and Portuguese derive?
Romance
Generally speaking, people who immigrate from Mexico to the United States do so because they want what?
have more economic opportunities for themselves and their children.
What is the difference between the classification of a person as an immigrant and a refugee?
The term immigrant refers to any person who lives permanently in a country not of her/his birth, while refugee refers to a person who enters a country because she/he must flee their native land because of war, famine or other disaster.