Latin America

Question 0

A Spanish conqueror of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

Answer 0

Conquistador

Question 1

Regional customs and culture that define that place

Answer 1

Regionalism

Question 2

A person appointed to rule

Answer 2

Viceroy

Question 3

Large estate or plantation

Answer 3

Hacienda

Question 4

Military or political leader

Answer 4

Caudillo

Question 5

Sudden seizure of power from the government

Answer 5

Coup d’état

Question 6

Prohibiting trade on another nation

Answer 6

Embargo

Question 7

In Mexico a piece of Land farmed under a system supported by the gov

Answer 7

Ejido

Question 8

A factory in Mexico run by a foreign company

Answer 8

Maquiladora

Question 9

General increase in prices

Answer 9

Inflation

Question 10

Brazilian slum

Answer 10

Favela

Question 11

Economic theory to unify and increase the power of a nation by gov regulation of the economy

Answer 11

Mercantilism

Question 12

Spanish system forcing the native Americans to work

Answer 12

Encomienda system

Question 13

Leader of Haitian revolution in 1791

Answer 13

Louveture

Question 14

Emperor of Incan empire before Spanish conquest

Answer 14

Atahualpa

Question 15

Spanish settlers in what is now Texas

Answer 15

Tejanos

Question 16

Battle between Texas and me for Texas

Answer 16

Battle of the Alamo

Question 17

A canal that connects the Atlantic to the pacific

Answer 17

Panama Canal

Question 18

Ended us Mexican war 1848

Answer 18

Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

Question 19

President of Mexico

Answer 19

Santa Anna

Question 20

Something Roosevelt added to the Monroe doctrine that makes the US in force the Europeans demands on Latin America

Answer 20

Roosevelt corollary

Question 21

Conflict between Mexican and Texan settlers from the us, ended the Mexican American war 1835

Answer 21

Texas revolution

Question 22

Attempts of colonization by Europe in the Americas 1823

Answer 22

Monroe doctrine

Question 23

Prince of Portugal

Answer 23

Pedro 1

Question 24

A battle in the fight for Mexican independence

Answer 24

Battle of Calderon

Question 25

Unification of LA

Answer 25

Gran Columbia

Question 26

This illness was responsible for killing most of the French in Haiti

Answer 26

Yellow fever

Question 27

First revolution after the American

Answer 27

Haitian

Question 28

Importance of the French and American rev

Answer 28

Both inspired Latin American nations

Question 29

Peninsulares, Creoles, mestizos, free blacks slaves.

Answer 29

Class system

Question 30

Creoles were Americans by birth and Europeans by law, they did not have all the power they wanted, they were inferior to Peninsulares

Answer 30

Creole discontent

Question 31

Why did the Creoles take a lead in the fight for independence?

Answer 31

They were second highest social class Wanted economic power Wanted political control Fear of social unrest

Question 32

Council in Spain that talks about the issues of the colonies

Answer 32

Council of the indies

Question 33

1494 divided the new world between Portugal and Spain

Answer 33

Treaty of tordesillas

Question 34

Protector of Indians, used blacks instead of Indians as slaves

Answer 34

De las cases

Question 35

Exchange if goods diseases and people

Answer 35

The Colombian exchange