Geography Central America and Caribbean Flashcards
___________ and Nevis are 1/10 the size of Rhode Island
Saint Kitts
First european settlement in the western hemisphere
Capital of Santo Domingo
TRUE OR FALSE: no one represents the territory of puerto rico
TRUE
Puerto Ricans are US citizens but they don’t have __________ in congress
voting representation
Slave Revolt by Tourissiant-L’Ouverture helped _____ win its independence from France in 1804
Haiti
Largest sugarcane plantations
Spain
Columbus landed where in 1492
Caribbean Islands
US controlled the canal until ____
1999
Panama Canal is a link between what two oceans
pacific and atlantic oceans
Due to US intervention, Nicaragua is now a _________
democracy
the practice of using an area’s natural environment to attract tourists.
Ecotourism
_____ which grows well in the cool highlands is the most important cash crop
coffee
_____ is spoken in Belize
English
_______ is the main language spoken in most countries.
Spanish
Most of the people are mestizos. Various people are descendants of the ______
mayans