Final Review 2019

One of the main purposes of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was to

• increase trade by creating a large free-trade zone between Mexico, United States, and Canada.

• decrease trade by creating tariffs between Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

• keep people in one country from buying goods from the other two countries.

• decrease the standard of living for some people while raising it for others.

What are the three main ethnic groups that created the people of Latin America today?

• Native Americans, Mulattoes, Europeans

• Mestizos, Native Americans, Europeans

• Africans, Europeans, Native Americans

• Africans, Mulattoes, Catholics

In Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil, Russia, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia most people choose to live

• in the center of the country.

• in rural areas

• in the mountains.

• in urban areas

After the Cuban Revolution, Cuba found itself in an embargo with its main trading partner, the United States. This embargo left Cuba with no one to sell its sugarcane to. Cuba then became allies with a communist country to trade its supply of sugarcane? Who was this communist country?

• North Korea

• Mexico

• Soviet Union

• China

Brazil is to presidential as the Cuba is to

• parliamentary

• democracy

• autocracy

• monarchy

What are drug cartels

• official police who are fighting the war on drugs

• criminal organizations who rule communities that traffics illegal drugs

• individual criminals who sell illegal drugs in Central America only

• vehicles used to sell illegal drugs

How does specialization encourage trade?

• It doesn’t.

• Countries do not want to trade with each other because they specialize in everything themselves.

• Countries are able to have more embargoes, which causes more trade to happen.

• Countries that specialize in one main product will be the best and cheapest at making that product, and other countries will trade with that country so they can have the best.

The Triangular Trade, including the Middle Passage, transported slaves. What areas were impacted by Triangular Trade during the 18th and 19th centuries?

• Africa, Europe, and the Americas

• Asia, the Americas, and Africa

• Australia, Asia, and Europe

• Europe, Asia, and Africa

How does the high literacy rate in Australia affect its economy and enhance the standard of living?

• Australia’s high literacy rate contributes to its economic success and promotes a high standard of living.

• The literacy rate has little effect on Australia’s economy

• Australia’s high literacy rate is the result of a poor economy

• The small percentage of people who cannot read are hurting most of Australia’s economy

Over the past 2 decades, a mass migration of Latinos has emigrated to the U.S. This migration has been caused by:

• The U.S. has better climate, jobs, and technology than most countries in Latin America.

• Migrants was to find lost family members.

• There are no requirements for naturalization.

• Rampant violence due to war on drugs & lack of economic opportunities.