Test Your Knowledge...
Who was the first US president in over 80 years to visit Cuba's capital?
Who is Barack Obama?
This vegetable became well known globally due to the Columbian exchange. It can also be called "maize".
What is Corn?
True or False: A Tariff was placed on Cuba by the United States as punishment.
What is False?
This small island fought for and won their country's independence from France January 1, 1804.
What is Haiti?
The destruction of forested areas is known as what?
What is Deforestation?
Many Cubans fled Cuba for which U.S. state?
What is Florida?
What did the Europeans bring to the New World that demolished the Indigenous/Native populations?
What is disease?
The new government Castro introduced to Cuba and embraced was_____________, which hurt relations between the United States and Cuba.
What is "Communism"?
What are the two most prominent languages in Latin America as a result of colonialism?
What are Portuguese & Spanish?
Tense period of time which many thought would result in a third world war.
What is Cold War?
This U.S President was responsible for imposing a major trade barrier on Cuba.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
True or False: The Columbian Exchange was the transportation of people, ideas, plants, and money over the course of 200 years.
What is False?
Shortly after Fidel Castro ended his presidency, who took over as leader of Cuba?(Name and relation to Castro)
Who is Raul Castro, his brother?
Due to Spanish influence, this religion spread quickly throughout South and Central America.
What is Catholicism?
Communism is the political belief that _________ should be shared.
What is wealth/property?
This was the first dictator of Cuba, who was he?
Who is Fulgencio Bautista?
What type of work were MOST African slaves forced to perform in Latin America?
What is Farm Labor?
After the embargo, Cuba suffered financially and the country's shipping ports were closed. This meant trading, buying, and selling were no longer a possibility. In other words, you could say the embargo caused Cuba's ___________to suffer.
What is economy?
Christopher Columbus' had hoped to travel to ___________, but landed in the Americas instead.
What is India?
This term describes the enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million Africans to the Americas.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Which group of people did Europeans try to enslave first?
What are Indigenous/ Native People?
Which two continents were considered and known as "The New World"?
What is North & South America?
Due to the inability to trade with the rest of the world for over 50 years, older models of this item are found throughout Cuba.
What are cars?
This was the ancient indigenous civilization Hernán Cortés conquered in the 1500s. They ruled what is modern day Mexico.
What are the Aztecs?
The fear of Cuba using the weapons against the United States, and the possibility of a third world war was known as the what?
What was the "Cuban Missile Crisis"?