Latin America Review Sheet s1

LATIN AMERICA REVIEW SHEET

On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions. Use this is a simple study guide for the Unit Test. Use your notes as your information source. Remember that the notes are on-line if you are missing anything!

Identify the following items, words and people: Mulatto Subsistence farming Voodoo Conquistadors Mestizo Commercial farming “Gitmo” Latin America Indigo Calypso Coup Latino Indigenous Embargo Guerilla Maccu Piccu Line of Demarcation Guantanamo Bay OPEC Hacienda Futbol Carnival NAFTA Creole Gaucho

Hernán Cortez Manuel Noriega Pélè Evo Morales Fidel Castro Jean-Bertrand Aristide Hugo Chavez Francisco Pizzaro Raul Castro Elian Gonzales Daniel Ortega

Monroe Doctrine 1. Who issued it? 2. When was it issued? 3. What did it say? Slash and burn farming 4. What is it? 5. What are some benefits and problems with it? 6. Who uses it? Cuban Missile Crisis 7. What year was it and what U.S. President 8. What happened? dealt with this? Bay of Pigs 9. What year was it and what U.S. 10. Was it a success? 11. What were we trying to do? President dealt with this?

12. Give some basic facts about the Amazon River and Angel Falls 13. What problems do the rainforests have? a. Why are they being torn down? 14. What group was the first to populate Latin America? a. What four specific groups were there? b. Where and when they lived in the region? 15. What group came in next? a. Who was the first person from the second c. What country was he sailing for? group to show up? d. Why did they come? b. Where was he from himself? 16. What country brought in conquistadors? a. What native groups were wiped out because of them (and who was the main conquistador)? 17. What two countries fought over South America? a. How was that settled? b. How can we see that settlement in effect today? 18. What other European countries came over? 19. How did the Europeans treat the Indians? 20. What determines what language Latin American countries speak? 21. What country got its independence first?

Spring ‘10 a. What was unique about this country’s independence movement? 22. When did Mexico claim independence? 23. Which country had the only successful slave revolt? 24. What country is currently communist? a. When did it become communist? b. Who led it to be communist? c. What have we done economically in response? i. Has it worked? ii. Is this likely to change any time soon? 25. What is the general agriculture like in Latin America? a. Which two groups typically owns the best land? b. What kind of farms has the best land available? c. What kind of land do the family farms have? 26. Which kind of farm is the most numerous in Latin America? a. What are the main crops of Central America? b. What are the main crops of South America? c. What are the main crops of the Caribbean? 27. What is big source of foreign economic income for the Caribbean? 28. Who is leading the anti-American campaign in Latin America? a. Who is joining him? b. What don’t they like about us? 29. Why is pollution in Mexico City so bad? 30. Why are so many cities surrounded by shantytowns and slums? 31. What is the number one reason illegal immigration from Mexico is so high? 32. Why is industry and manufacturing so small in the Caribbean? 33. Why is the Panama Canal so important to the U.S.? a. When was it built? c. What islands did we buy to protect it? b. Who owns it now? d. What’s ‘wrong’ with it today? 34. Which two Latin American areas are ‘owned’ by the US? 35. Which South American country has a lot of oil? 36. Why isn’t Argentina better off than they are? 37. Who owns Easter Island? a. Why is it unique? 38. Who owns the Galapagos Islands? a. Why are they important? b. What scientific discovery was developed here?

Understand how the U.S. has gotten involved with Latin America: 39. What are some of the positive involvements we’ve done? 40. What are some of the negative involvements we’ve done also? 41. What are some that aren’t really negative or positive? 42. What are some of their issues that have directly affected us?

Know the basic details and information about the regions and countries we discussed in class. Remember, it’s not going be all of the tedious, minute details; we discussed regional generalities and issues and then unique specifics for the countries.

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