SS Chapter 6
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- Caribs
- Moved to Caribbean from South America, adopted Arawak culture traits,
- communism
- an economic system in which all propery and means of production belong to the people as a group
- bananas
- What major crop is grown in the lowlands of Central America?
- 700
- Number of island that make up the Bahamas.
- mulattoes
- people of both African and European descent
- federation
- a union of groups or states under a central authority
- coral
- the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals
- archipelago
- a chain of many islands
- abolish
- to end
- Bahamas
- Where did Columbus land on his voyage to find a new route to Asia?
- Haiti
- present country of what was St. Domingue and Hispaniola
- Fidel Castro
- introduced communism to Cuba
- petition
- a written request for action
- Panama
- What country currently owns and operates the Panama Canal?
- Spanish
- What language do most people in Central America speak?
- commercial farming
- growing of crops to be sold for profit
- Bahmas, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles
- three things that make up the Caribbean
- Maya
- What was the most important Native group to live in Central America?
- Jamaica
- in 1607 Spain gave ____________ up to England
- Pacific
- The ring of fire is a circle of volcanoes around what ocean?
- to overthrow dicatorship
- the main goal of guerilla groups
- Hispaniola
- in 1697 French took control of the Western part of ____________________
- 7
- how many countries make up Central America?
- legacy
- anything handed down from an ancestor
- coniferous
- a cone bearing tree
- indentured servants
- people that agree to work for a certain period of time, with no pay, but usually in exchange for travel expenses
- Leeward Islands
- Group of island in the Lesser Antilles thta are sheltered from the trade winds.
- coffee
- What major crop if frown in the mountain areas of Central America?
- guerrilla
- a member of a small group of soldiers that is not part of the regular army
- Ciboneys
- What group of native people were thought to be the 1st to settle in the Caribbean?
- sugarcane
- What was the major crop that was produced by the Spanish in the Caribbean? was also known as "sweet gold"
- sugar prices fell, which caused plantations to close
- What was one of the main reasons that slavery was abolished in the Caribbean?
- Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
- Three of the island that make up the Greater Antilles.
- Columbian Exchange
- the movement of people, animals, plants, and ideas between Eastern and Western Hemishperes, the most important exchange was people
- Arawaks
- arrived in the Caribbean after the Ciboneys between 200B.C. and 100 A.D.
- cay
- a tiny, low lying island
- Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico
- 4 islands that make up the Greater Antilles