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L. America Conflict
conflict and change standards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| trafficking | smuggling people or products illegally |
| naturalization | the process of a citizen of one country legally becoming a citizen of another country |
| immigration | the movement of people from one country to another |
| drug cartels | work together and use violence to push the supply and price of their product |
| poverty | 1 in 5 Latin Americans experience this; not having basic needs |
| Raul Castro | leader of Cuba today |
| Fidel Castro | took over Batista in 1959 during the Cuban Revolution; created Communism in Cuba |
| Fulgencio Batista | a symbol of instability in Cuba in the early 20th Century; overtook another leader to make himself |
| John F. Kennedy | the U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | a hotspot of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; a tense time period in which we almost had a nuclear war |
| Bay of Pigs | an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained group of Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro |
| embargo | a block of all trade with a country imposed by a government |
| sugarcane | grows really well in Cuba; the U.S. bought this from Cuba and really helped their economy... until the emgargo |
| Cuba | island country 90 miles from Florida |
| Creole | a language spoken in Haiti; characteristics of French + African |
| voodoo | a religion in Haiti having African and native origins |
| indigenous people | native to the land (they were there first!) |
| 5 G's | God, gold, glory, goods, ground- what explorers were searching for during the 1500-1600's |
| Columbian Exchange | the movement of plants, animals, diseases, and people form the Old World to the New World and from the New World to the Old World |
| smallpox | a disease brought by the Europeans that killed millions of native Americans |
| Triangular Trade | the movement of slaves from Africa to the Americas |
| Spanish | most Latin American countries speak this today |
| Portuguese | most Brazilians speak this today |
| Catholic | the religion of most Latin Americans today |
| Africans, Native Americans, Europeans | the 3 sources of new blended races and diversity in Latin America today |