Latin America History Study Guide

· sea voyage of a month or more
· between Africa and the Americas
· approximately 12 million people made the journey
· a death rate of approximately 25% during the journey

These are all describing

• Triangular Trade.

• the Middle Passage.

• Mercantilist theory.

• the Columbian Exchange.

Within a century of the conquests in Latin America by Spain and Portugal, the native population had declined considerably from battle and disease. To offset this loss of labor, Spain and Portugal

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  imported slaves from Africa.

• encouraged European immigration.

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  improved agriculture through new methods of farming.

• improved living conditions for the native populations.

Historians generally agree that the first international slave trade in Africa was

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  with Portuguese traders.

• across the Indian Ocean.

• across the Sahara Desert.

• the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

The majority of enslaved people brought to the Americas

• were captured from West African coastal tribes.

• were mainly women captured through tribal wars.

• were obtained through slave trade with Muslim merchants.

• were captured from the Cape of South Africa by Dutch traders.

• were captured by British slave traders and brought to the East coast of North America.

Choose the THREE answers that describe the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

• People were captured by force and taken from Africa.

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  Enslaved people traveled in ships across the Pacific Ocean.

• The "Middle Passage" of the journey could take weeks or months to complete.

• Enslaved people crossed the ocean and were taken to North and South America.

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  Families of enslaved people were paid by slave traders for the loss of their family members.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade played an enormous role on the development of the Americas. Choose the TWO answers that correctly describe some of these ways.

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  Slavery was not as common in South America as it was in North America.

• Enslaved people worked in diamond and gold mines in parts of South America.

• The mortality rate amongst enslaved people on the Middle Passage was often 25% or higher.

• By the late 1700s, the vast majority of enslaved people in the Americas were indigenous peoples.

• Upon arriving in North America, enslaved people were often initially put to work in factories in the northeast.

Unlike Great Britain, a significant motivation for Spain to explore and colonize the so-called "New World" was

• to find new areas of raw resources.

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  to find new trade routes to East Asia.

• to spread the power of the Catholic Church.

• to destroy civilizations that posed a threat to Europe.

After the Reformation, which areas were introduced to Catholicism due to Spanish missionaries?

• South Asia

• North Africa

• North America

• South America

What conclusion can you draw from the fact that Spanish and Portuguese are the most commonly spoken languages in Latin America?

• Latin Americans have chosen to speak Romance languages.

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  Latin Americans were born in Spain and Portugal and then moved.

• Spain and Portugal colonized Latin American nations during the 15th and 16th centuries.

• Many Latin Americans travel to Spain and Portugal and learn the language while visiting.

• Bay of Pigs

• Fulgencio Batista

• Mariel Boat Lift

• economic boycott

All of these terms deal with U.S. involvement in what country's affairs?

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• Cuba

• Mexico

• Nicaragua

• Spain