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Where was the Republic of the Pirates?
What is Nassau, Bahamas?
Name the richest country in Central America.
What is Panama?
Name the place Columbus first landed in the Americas and where he thought he was.
What was the Bahamas and the East Indies?
Who was Fulgencio Batista?
Name the first country to gain its independence through a slave rebellion.
What is Haiti?
Explain the difference between Middle America, Latin America, Central America, and Mesoamerica.
What is the answer?
Name the most visited country in Central America.
What is Costa Rica?
Explain the main reason the rainforest is being cut down.
What is cattle?
Name the term for someone who left Cuba after the revolution and immigrated to Florida.
Describe Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador's relationship with each other.
What is share history, friends, welcoming to immigrants.
Name the main things that were sent from the Americas to Europe in the Columbian Exchange.
What were potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, and syphillis?
Name the three main natural disasters that impact Middle America.
What are volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes?
Explain how cruise ships are harmful to the environment.
What is CO2, sulfur dioxide, dumping?
Name Cuba's top 3 exports.
What are coffee, cigars, and rum?
Explain who Simon Bolivar is.
Who is the guy that helped a bunch of Latin American countries gain their independence?
Name the main things that were sent from Europe to the Americas in the Columbian Exchange.
What are animals, wheat, honey bees, diseases?
Name the country that's landscape is full of volcanoes and calderas.
What is El Salvador?
Explain why cruise ships and all-inclusive resorts don't help local economies.
What is money not going to the people there, suck up resources, expatriate revenue?
Name the leader of the Cuban Revolution and the two people who helped him (that we discussed in class).
Who was Fidel Castro, William Morgan, and Che Guevara?
Name the group of Africans who escaped slavery and hid out in the mountains.
Who are the Jamaican Maroons?
Explain what NAFTA was and why it's not objectively bad.
What is free trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada, and what helps our neighbors helps us.
Name at least three reasons why Belize is a popular tourist destination for Americans.
What are currency, language, ecotourism, Mayan civilization, barrier reef, blue hole, buses?
Explain what the United Fruit Company did.
What is buy up a bunch of land in Latin America and exploit the places and people there?
Explain why Cuba is said to be "stuck in time."
What is US embargo?
Name the country/region that each of the following ethnic group was/is concentrated in:
Peninsulares + Creoles
Mestizos
Africans
Amerindians
What is
Peninsulares + Creoles: Argentina
Mestizos: Colombia
Africans: Coastal areas
Amerindians: Andean spine