Latin American Review

What was one of the reasons for European expansion into the New World?

• They wanted gold to help import their GDP.

• They wanted to colonize land to defeat Napoleon.

• Cheap and steadily available labor force to work in Sugar Cane plantations.

• Europeans wanted to convert indigenous populations into Christians.

What destroyed the indigenous populations in South America during the European expansion to the New World?

• Too many indigenous populations were being sold into slavery.

• The indigenous populations did not have immunities to European diseases such as smallpox.

• The indigenous populations had more deaths than births.

• The indigenous populations were forced to fight in the French and Indian War.

The importation of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as what?

• Portuguese Revolution

• Columbian Exchange

• Transatlantic Slave Trade and Triangular Trade

• Spanish Revolution

What happened to most of the indigenous population in the Americas?

• It was much faster to acquire workers from Africa than indigenous people.

• Their religion required them to convert all immigrants.

• The indigenous populations of Latin America were destroyed due to disease.

• They wanted to increase the standard of living for Africans.

Portuguese is spoken in which country?

• Portugal

• Brazil

• Mexico

• Germany

Other than Spanish and Portuguese colonist ____________ had the biggest influence on the culture of Latin America.

• Germans

• Americans

• Africans

Which religion was the most common throughout Latin America?

• Protestant Chhistianity

• Catholic Christanity

• Baptist Christainity

What BEST describes why the Spanish and Portuguese decided to use African slave labor in the New World?

• Slavery still exists in many parts of South and Central America today.

• Many of the plantations that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today.

• Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans have resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America.

• Many of the descendendants from the black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines in Brazil.

What still prevails today in South American countries such as Cuba and Brazil from the African Slave trade?

• Slavery still exists in many parts of South and Central America today.

• Many of the plantations that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today.

• Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans have resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America.

• Many of the descendendants from the black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines in Brazil.

What is the Iberian language?

• It was the native language of the indigenous people of South America.

• It was the language the black African's spoke.

• Languages and cultures from the Iberian Peninsula which include Spanish and Portuguese.

• South Americans language from Mexico.