Vocabulary
Moving from one place to another
What does Migration mean?
Diseases, religion, language, foods, and plants
What was brought to the New World?
Fulgencio Batista
Who led Cuba before Castro took over?
Higher literacy rates increase the standard of ilving.
What is the relationship between literacy and the standard of living?
I left El Salvador because of these reasons
What is the Cartels, the violence (homicides), and to escape poverty?
not having enough to meet your financial needs (food, housing, healthcare etc).
What is poverty?
The potato, corn, chocolate, strawberries
What goods came from the New World?
Punishment for Cuba for getting help from the Soviet Union.
Why was an embargo placed on Cuba by the USA?
Escaping poverty and drug violence.
Reasons poor people leave (Migrate from) Latin America?
The land of opportunity
How do people outside of America in poverty think of The United States of America?
Africa, Europe and Asia
What is the Old World?
Cuba allowed the Soviet Union to put missiles in Cuba pointing at the USA.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Spanish and Portuguese are the main languages in Latin America today.
How do we know Latin America was colonized by Spain and Portugal?
type of government in Cuba after the Revolution
What is communism?
Africans were taken to Latin America, and the goods they produced were sent to Europe (Sugar, Rice, Coffee, Tea, and Bananas) then packaged goods were sent to Africa. Trade across the Atlantic and between three continents.
What was the Triangular trade?
Europeans needed a labor source to work on their plantations.
Why were Africans brought to the New world?
Raul Castro
Who took over Cuba after Fidel Castro dies?
Roman Catholic (Catholicism)
What is the main religion in Latin America?
California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Florida
What border states do most migrants go to in America?
What are good strategies to use to do well on the test?
Fidel Castro does this in Cuba in 1959
What is the Cuban Revolution?
caused millions of native Americans to die or too sick to work.
What are diseases like measles, the flu, and smallpox?
Invest in education and healthcare will help people get out of poverty and reduce immigration to the USA.
What can governments do to decrease migration from Latin America to the USA?
Looking for better job opportunities to make money for their families.
What is the reason to migrate to America?
Tuesday, March 21St in Social Studies
When is the test?