Caribbean Geography
The 4 islands that make up the Greater Antilles
What is Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico?
The crop that Europeans colonized the Caribbean for.
What is sugar cane?
The process of influencing other countries through political, economic, or cultural influence.
What is Neocolonialism?
The process of educated people moving away from a country.
What is brain drain?
The islands that Haiti and the Dominican Republic share.
What is Hispaniola?
Where the air for a hurricane comes from
What is the Saharan Desert?
The process of African Cultures moving to the Caribbean.
What is the African Diaspora?
The U.S. declaration that European countries can no longer interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Reasons why people move to/away from a country.
The 2 main reasons why Haiti is so poor.
What are natural disasters and environmental issues from colonization?
The temperate zones of the Caribbean
What is tropical wet and tropical dry?
What are French Creole and Papiamento?
The largest building project that the U.S. ever did in South America.
What is Panama Canal?
The plan by Puerto Rico to draw U.S. companies to the island.
The reason that the Dominican Republic has more farm land.
What is less mountains?
The idea that the Caribbean is separated from other places by the ocean, but is still connected to them in other ways.
What is isolate proximity?
The reason that Belize was given to the British.
What are pirates?
The international argument where the WTO forced the UK to change its buying habits.
What are the banana wars?
Money that is sent home to family members.
What are remittances?
The president of the Dominican Republic who did not like Haitians.
Who is Rafael Trujillo?
Where the Canary Islands are close to.
What is the coast of West Africa?
The name of the prison colony off the coast of French Guiana.
What is Devil's Island?
One way that the U.S. helped its business interests in the Caribbean.
What is building infrastructure?
What are jobs/money?
The word that people had to pronounce with a Spanish accent.
What is Perejil?