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WorksheetsLatin America History
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
What was one of the 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.
What decimated 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 small pox.
The indigenous populations were forced to fight in the French and Indian war.
The indigenous populations had more deaths than births.
The importation of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as the what?
Columbian Exchange
Portuguese Revolution
Spanish Revolution
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese bring black Africans to the Americans?
The indigenous populations of Latin America were decimated (destroyed) due to disease.
Their religion required them to do convert all immigrants.
It was much faster to acquire black Africans than indigenous people.
They wanted to increase the Standard of living of black Africans.
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 haciendas that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today.
Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans which resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America today.
Many of the descendants from the black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines in Brazil.
What is an Iberian language?
It was the native language of the indigenous populations of South America.
It was the language the black African’s spoke.
South American Language from Mexico.
Languages and cultures from the Iberian Peninsula which included Spain and Portugal
Which of the following is true about Romance languages?
They include both English and Slavik.
It is the least spoken language in Latin America.
It includes both Spanish and Portuguese.
It is a mixture of an ancient indigenous language and Spanish.
What is the official language of Brazil?
English
Portuguese
Spanish
Russian
What is the official language of Mexico?
Englsih
Portuguese
Spanish
Russian
What religion did European explorers bring with them during the colonization of the New World?
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Mormonism
What was Fulgencio Batista’s relationship to Cuba?
He was the Prime Minister before Fidel Castro took control.
He was the Prime Minister before Fidel Castro took control.
He was the dictator before Fidel Castro took control.
He was the monarch before Fidel Castro took control.
Which is an example of Fidel Castro turning Cuba into a communist state?
All people were made to worship one God.
Businesses, factories, and farmlands were property over by the government.
Citizens gained personal freedom and new liberties.
Citizens were given new property back that the U.S. previously owned.
What was one of the responses the United States to Fidel Castro’s takeover?
Placed tariffs on all sugar from Cuba.
Placed Quota’s on all tobacco imported from Cuba.
Placed an embargo on all goods from Cuba.
Sold all there Cuban stock to hurt Cuban GDP.
What communist country became allies with Cuba during Fidel Castro’s takeover?
Spain
France
Great Britain
Soviet Union
What was one of the outcomes from Cuban alliance with its allied partner?
President Kennedy’s administration dealt with a 13 day standoff known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy agreed to end the cold war.
President Kennedy ordered the U.S. to launch intercontinental missiles at Cuba.
Relationships between the U.S. and Cuba improved slightly.
Which of the following is the main cause for the rampant poverty throughout Latin America?
There are not enough citizens to fill its employment needs.
A lack of high-quality, high-skill employment opportunities.
Literacy rates are the highest on Earth.
A lack of good health care hinders citizens from working.
The drug war on Cocaine production is most pronounced in which region of Latin America?
Andean
Atacamean
Chilean
Amazon Rainforest
Which Latin American country do drug traffickers use to funnel drugs into the U.S.?
Colombia
Panama
Venzuela
Mexico
What is the name given to drug gangs throughout Latin America?
Drug mafias
Drug cartels
Drug BRICS
Drug migrators
What is the result of the war on drugs and lack of economic opportunities in Latin America?
Latin American populations have expanded due to the large amounts of Drug Cartels.
Latin American Politician’s have become famous for defeating the Drug Cartels.
Latin American Human Capital has improved because of the amount of people acquiring more education to move out of Latin America.
Many Latinos have emigrated to the U.S. in search of safer living conditions and stabler work environments.
To relocate to a new country for the purpose of employment.
Trafficking
Emigrate
Colombian Exchange
Iberian
The illegal smuggling of people or products.
Trafficking
Emigrate
Colombian Exchange
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Area that is largely countryside.
Rural
Urban
Geographic Term for countries located along the Andes mountain range of South America.
Rural
BRICS
Iberian
Andean
Process by which a citizen of one country may become a legal citizen of another country.
Colombian Exchange
Cold War
Naturalization
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Term used to describe the world’s five fastest growing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South America
BRICS
Soviet Union
Colombian Exchange
Trafficking
Period of time between WWII until the collapse of Soviet Union.
Indigenous
Cold War
Roman Catholic
BRICS
Violent extremism associated with the illegal drug trade.
Trafficking
Emigrate
Narco-terrorism
Indigenous
The enslavement and forced transportation of 12 – 15 million black Africans.
Narco-terrorism
Naturalization
Colombian Exchange
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Term referring to the native peoples of a particular place.
Indigenous
Andean
Iberian
BRICS
__ Name given to former communist government of Russia (also known as US.S.R.)
Fidel Castro
Soviet Union
BRICS
Colombian Exchange
Largest denomination of Christianity in the world.
Indigenous
Iberian
Roman Catholic
Romance
Movement of peoples, agricultural commodities, diseases, and cultures between the Old World and New World.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Narco-terrorism
Trafficking
Colombian Exchange
Former communist dictator of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
John Kennedy
Languages and cultural characteristics of Latin-speaking Roman Empire.
Roman Catholic
Andean
Romance
Iberian
Referring to the nations and cultures of Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, Spain, and Portugal.
Iberian
Andean
Rural
Indigenous
