Latin America: An Introduction

What river serves as a partial border between the US and Mexico?

• Rio Baja

• Rio Laredo

• Rio Grande

• Rio Juarez

Mexico’s climate is mostly desert.

• True

• False

Spaniard who toppled the Inca empire

• Bernardo O’Higgins

• Toussaint Louverture

• Francisco Pizarro

• Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

What is one of the aims of the Organization of American States (OAS)?

• Prevent trade barriers in the Americas

• Provide a court of justice for cross-border disputes

• Provide for common action in the event of aggression

• Build a military security force for the Americas

Why did President Kennedy order a naval quarantine of Cuba in 1962?

• Evidence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba

• Evidence of a Cuban military buildup and plans to invade Florida

• Khrushchev’s threats to drop an atomic bomb on Miami

• Evidence of a terrorist base in Cuba

What did President Theodore Roosevelt decide the US needed after the Spanish-American War?

• To gain new colonies in Central and South America

• To control a canal in the Western Hemisphere

• To build better weapons against the Spanish navy

• To forge new alliances with Portugal and France

What did Chile and Bolivia fail to agree on in 1978?

• A way to jointly invade Peru and topple its Communist government

• A way to jointly administer disputed border territories

• A way to restore territories in western Bolivia to Chile

• A way to grant Bolivia access to the sea

What situation in Mexico in the early 1860s was a test of the Monroe Doctrine?

• British colonization of southern Mexico

• Texas voted to become part of Mexico

• Maximilian’s acceptance of the Mexican crown

• Mexican involvement in the US Civil War

What was included in the secret treaty signed by Santa Anna in 1836?

• Texan Independence

• An end to Mexican Slavery

• California independence

• Reparations for the executions at Goliad

What is one of the three concepts of the Monroe Doctrine?

• The US right to establish commonwealths

• Recognize the existing European colonies in Latin America

• An end to colonization of the New World

• Agreement to open trade within the Americas