AFJROTC // CHAPTER 5 LATIN
AMERICA EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What economic change led to a small group of people owning more and more land in
the nineteenth century? - Answer-Falling transportation costs
What is an important economic engine for most societies? - Answer-Middle-class
consumption
What type of political powers did Simón Bolívar assume as the leader of Greater
Colombia? - Answer-Dictatorial
What issue has come up again and again in Mexico and El Salvador, causing civil
wars? - Answer-Land ownership
What country declared its independence from Colombia as part of the War of a
Thousand Days? - Answer-Panama
Whose actions resulted in the so-called "Dirty Wars" in Argentina? - Answer-The
ruling junta
What leader's rule in Chile was marked by human rights abuses? - Answer-Pinochet
What political movement lives on in Argentina? - Answer-Peronism
What country did Fidel Castro work closely with for years? - Answer-Soviet Union
On what type of platform did Chávez run for president in 1998? - Answer-Reform
How did many people see Hugo Chávez's first electoral defeat? - Answer-A rebuke
to his efforts to increase his power
What group has the power to bribe government officials at all levels and to kill them?
- Answer-Drug cartels
Why do high levels of lawlessness cause some businesses to give up and close? -
Answer-Criminals skim part or all of the profits
What happens when prominent citizens leave a society? - Answer-Their investments
go with them
What did Mexico abolish in 1992? - Answer-Constitutional limits on the church
What challenged a corrupt government in Paraguay? - Answer-The Catholic Church
What call have clergy in Brazil heeded? - Answer-Social action
, What groups in El Salvador were set up to work for social change? - Answer-
Christian Base Communities
Who benefits from free trade? - Answer-Consumers
How does the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) compare to other
free trade zones in the world? - Answer-Largest
What does the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA-DR) do away with? - Answer-Tariffs
What do US policymakers hope that agreements like CAFTA-DR will lead to? -
Answer-Economic development
What situation in Mexico in the early 1860s was a test of the Monroe Doctrine? -
Answer-Maximilian's acceptance of the Mexican crown
What did Chile and Bolivia fail to agree on in 1978? - Answer-A way to grant Bolivia
access to the sea
What did President Theodore Roosevelt decide the US needed after the Spanish-
American War? - Answer-To control a canal in the Western Hemisphere
Why did President Kennedy order a naval quarantine of Cuba in 1962? - Answer-
Evidence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
What is one of the aims of the Organization of American States (OAS)? - Answer-
Provide for common action in the event of aggression
Why did European nations establish their colonies in the New World? - Answer-Make
money
What social class in Latin America was very much like a feudal lord in Europe? -
Answer-Hacendados
What did a World Bank official say Latin America exhibits between the rich and poor
in assets? - Answer-Huge disparities
What has Honduras been largely dependent on for a century and a half? - Answer-
Export of commodities
What was the main export of Honduras at first? - Answer-Minerals
Who grows and markets most of the bananas in Honduras? - Answer-International
corporations
What happened around 2000 to underline the risks of building a national economy
on coffee beans? - Answer-Coffee prices declined steeply worldwide
AMERICA EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What economic change led to a small group of people owning more and more land in
the nineteenth century? - Answer-Falling transportation costs
What is an important economic engine for most societies? - Answer-Middle-class
consumption
What type of political powers did Simón Bolívar assume as the leader of Greater
Colombia? - Answer-Dictatorial
What issue has come up again and again in Mexico and El Salvador, causing civil
wars? - Answer-Land ownership
What country declared its independence from Colombia as part of the War of a
Thousand Days? - Answer-Panama
Whose actions resulted in the so-called "Dirty Wars" in Argentina? - Answer-The
ruling junta
What leader's rule in Chile was marked by human rights abuses? - Answer-Pinochet
What political movement lives on in Argentina? - Answer-Peronism
What country did Fidel Castro work closely with for years? - Answer-Soviet Union
On what type of platform did Chávez run for president in 1998? - Answer-Reform
How did many people see Hugo Chávez's first electoral defeat? - Answer-A rebuke
to his efforts to increase his power
What group has the power to bribe government officials at all levels and to kill them?
- Answer-Drug cartels
Why do high levels of lawlessness cause some businesses to give up and close? -
Answer-Criminals skim part or all of the profits
What happens when prominent citizens leave a society? - Answer-Their investments
go with them
What did Mexico abolish in 1992? - Answer-Constitutional limits on the church
What challenged a corrupt government in Paraguay? - Answer-The Catholic Church
What call have clergy in Brazil heeded? - Answer-Social action
, What groups in El Salvador were set up to work for social change? - Answer-
Christian Base Communities
Who benefits from free trade? - Answer-Consumers
How does the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) compare to other
free trade zones in the world? - Answer-Largest
What does the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA-DR) do away with? - Answer-Tariffs
What do US policymakers hope that agreements like CAFTA-DR will lead to? -
Answer-Economic development
What situation in Mexico in the early 1860s was a test of the Monroe Doctrine? -
Answer-Maximilian's acceptance of the Mexican crown
What did Chile and Bolivia fail to agree on in 1978? - Answer-A way to grant Bolivia
access to the sea
What did President Theodore Roosevelt decide the US needed after the Spanish-
American War? - Answer-To control a canal in the Western Hemisphere
Why did President Kennedy order a naval quarantine of Cuba in 1962? - Answer-
Evidence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
What is one of the aims of the Organization of American States (OAS)? - Answer-
Provide for common action in the event of aggression
Why did European nations establish their colonies in the New World? - Answer-Make
money
What social class in Latin America was very much like a feudal lord in Europe? -
Answer-Hacendados
What did a World Bank official say Latin America exhibits between the rich and poor
in assets? - Answer-Huge disparities
What has Honduras been largely dependent on for a century and a half? - Answer-
Export of commodities
What was the main export of Honduras at first? - Answer-Minerals
Who grows and markets most of the bananas in Honduras? - Answer-International
corporations
What happened around 2000 to underline the risks of building a national economy
on coffee beans? - Answer-Coffee prices declined steeply worldwide
