President Kennedy placed what type of trade barrier on Cuba?
Embargo
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What event do these describe? Castro overthrew Batista and seized power of Cuba. Castro set up a communist government and created an alliance with the Soviet Union. Basic freedoms and rights were denied to Cubans.
Cuban Revolution
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In which Latin American country would you most likely hear Portuguese being spoken today?
Brazil
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What two European countries contributed most to the languages and religion of Latin America today?
Spain & Portugal
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What is one effect of slavery that influences Latin America today?
Many Latin Americans have ancestors from Africa.
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What country did Cuba make an alliance with that made the US upset?
Soviet Union
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What happened to many of the indigenous people of Latin America after the arrival of Europeans?
They were killed by European diseases like smallpox.
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After decimating the indigenous population, where did Europeans look to find another cheap labor source for their plantations?
Enslaved people from West Africa
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What is the most common religion throughout Latin America today?
Catholicism
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Other than Spanish and Portuguese colonists, which group had the biggest influence on the Latin American cultural region?
African enslaved people
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The pattern of trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas that included the enslavement of people between 1400 and 1800 was called:
Triangular Trade
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Who was in control of Cuba's government before the Cuban Revolution?