History of Latin America

Why do most Latin Americans today practice the same religion and speak only a few main languages?

• Most Latin Americans have held on to their indigenous cultures

• Latin Americans have voted to have one official language and religion

• Latin American countries were once colonized by European nations

• Many Latin Americans are from the same indigenous group

Cuba got some help from which country when they were trying to become communist?

• Russia

• USA

• France

• Brazil

Fidel Castro overthrew Batista for the thrown. He then declared Cuba communist and took away basic rights and freedoms of the people. What was this known as?

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Cold War

• The U.S.-Cuba embargo

• The Cuban Revolution

What economic sanction did the US place on Cuba?

• embargo

• tariff

• quota

• taxes

Where did 500,000 Cubans go to escape Castro's communist policies?

• The US

• Brazil

• They stayed in Cuba

• Panama

What is one reason people migrate (leave) from Latin America and go to the United States?

• to escape poverty

• they want to eventually get to Canada

• they are trying to escape a civil war

• they want to learn how to speak french

The Columbian Exchange was

• the first great banking and trading house in South America.

• the exchange of precious metals between the old and new worlds.

• the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the old and new worlds.

• the movement of the army of Simon Bolivar across Gran Columbia.

During the Era of Exploration in the 1500s, Europeans in the areas shaded in green would have been MOST likely to be spreading

• Catholicism.

• Judaism.

• Lutheranism.

• Protestantism.

What are the similarities between Portugal and Spain's motivations for exploration of the "New World"?

• Both countries were interested in expanding their empires.

• Neither country was interested in finding new trade routes.

• Portuguese explorers, unlike Spaniards, wanted more wealth.

• Neither country sought to introduce Christianity to the natives.

Which BEST describes the traveling conditions of slaves coming from Africa to the Americas?

• grouped by families staying in individual rooms

• chained close together in the bottom of the ship

• chained to beds close together on top of the boat

• freely walking around the ship but in large numbers