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L.A. History
Latin American History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| indigenous | Native |
| Triangular Slave Trade | The movement of slaves from Africa to the Americas, raw materials to Europe, and finished products to Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Colombian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, people and disease from the Old World to the New World. |
| Small Pox | Disease that killed many indigenous people in Latin America and causing Europeans to begin buying salves from Africa. |
| Fidel Castro | Led the Cuban Revolution against General Batista. he made Cuba communist. he was a cruel autocratic leader that did not allow citizens to have freedoms. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | When Fidel Castro allowed Khrushchev to place Soviet missiles in Cube only 90 miles away from Florida (USA) during the Cold War. JFK responded with a embargo and blockade, and the missiles were removed. |
| Bay of Pigs | the failed invasion that America launched on Cuba to overthrow Castro |
| Roman Catholic | main religion practiced in Latin America |
| Spanish | predominant language spoken in Latin America |
| Portuguese | Main language spoken in Brazil |
| Hacienda | Spanish agricultural plantation |
| Commodity | A good desirable fro trade |
| Romance family | language family of Spanish and Portuguese |
| New World | Name given to the land rediscovered during the age of exploration-the Americas |
| Globalization | process of interaction and integration of among various parts of the World. |
| Cuban Revolution | Conflict between General Batista and Fidel Castro where the Fidel overthrows Batsita and makes Cuba communist. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| John F. Kennedy | Leader of the USA during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| embargo | to end trade with another country |
| blockade | to surround an area and not allow goods in or out |
| coup | act of overthrowing a government |
| communism | a system of government where the state government controls all the property and resources of the economy |
| Batista | military general and dictator of Cuba before the Cuban Revolution |
| narcotics | an illegal substance used for recreational use like cocaine or heroin |
| standard of living | overall well-being of a nation (healthy and wealthy) |
| literacy rate | percentage of people that can read or write |
| emigrate | relocate to a new place for employment |
| trafficking | illegally smuggling goods or people |
| cartel | a group that dominates a trade or service like the drug trade |
| naturalization | the process by which a citizen of one country becomes a citizen of another country |
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