Latin America History/Govt/Econ Review

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

• They wanted gold to help improve their GDP

• They wanted to colonize land to defeat Napoleon

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

• Europeans wanted to convert indigenous populations into Christians

Who made himself dictator of Cuba in 1952?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Fulgencio Batista

• Fidel Castro

• Nikita Krushchev

Why was the United States buying land and building factories in Cuba?

• The U.S. wanted to rule Cuba

• The U.S. wanted to produce sugar

• The U.S. wanted to establish automobile factories

• The U.S. wanted to set up missiles

Because of the Cuban Revolution, Fulgencio Batista was replaced in power by ________________.

• Nikita Krushchev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Josef Stalin

• Fidel Castro

During Castro's communist regime, the ____________ became the ONLY source of news.

• government

• local TV station

• local radio station

• church

Why did the United States place an economic embargo on Cuba?

• Cuba attacked the state of Florida

• The Soviet Union forced the U.S. to place the embargo

• Castro & his government claimed American businesses, factories, and farmland belonged to them.

• No good reason

The process of interaction & integration among various parts of the world through commercial & cultural exchange is called ____________.

• indigenous

• globalization

• transatlantic

• naturalization

__________ is the official language of Brazil.

• French

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Italian

The trading of animals, plants, people, and diseases from the Old World to the New World & vice versa.

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Naturalization

• Globalization

• Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange began with ______________ in 1492.

• George Washington

• Fulgencio Batista

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortez