south/central america

Question 1

1821 defeat of Royalist army commanded by Miguel de la Torre

Answer 1

Battle of Carabobo

Question 2

battle where Venezuela secured independence

Answer 2

Battle of Carabobo

Question 3

grassland areas in Venezuela and Colombia, where there were naturally skilled horsemen

Answer 3

Llanos

Question 4

name for these people derives from an Arawak word for a horizontal spit they used to create smoked meat

Answer 4

buccaneers

Question 5

outlaws, mostly of English and French descent, who gathered on the isle of Tortuga to raid Spanish ships in the early modern Caribbean

Answer 5

buccaneers

Question 6

long-beaked ships, which sailed in annual fleets taking silver between New Spain and Manila

Answer 6

galleons

Question 7

two women who were convicted of piracy by the British governor of Jamaica

Answer 7

Anne Bonny and Mary Read

Question 8

“pleaded the belly” to get their executions stayed due to pregnancy

Answer 8

Anne Bonny and Mary Read

Question 9

known as “the Liberator” for his role in the independence movements of Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and a country named for him

Answer 9

Simon Bolivar

Question 10

Nevado was a dog owned by this general

Answer 10

Simon Bolivar

Question 11

victor at the Battle of Boyaca along with Santander

Answer 11

Simon Bolivar

Question 12

Battle of Cucuta was fought during this campaign

Answer 12

Admirable Campaign

Question 13

led Admirable Campaign from Cartagena to Caracas

Answer 13

Simon Bolivar

Question 14

Theodore Roosevelt sent a fleet under Admiral Dewey to help end a blockade of this nation being conducted by the UK, Germany, and Italy

Answer 14

Venezuela

Question 15

nation where President Cipriano Castro had ceased paying foreign debts

Answer 15

Venezuela

Question 16

had a 1895 border dispute with Great Britain under President Joaquin Crespo

Answer 16

Venezuela

Question 17

took place two years after the Battle of Boyaca

Answer 17

Battle of Carabobo

Question 18

majority of rural Venezuelans belong to this ethnic group of mixed white/black ancestry

Answer 18

pardos

Question 19

This Haitian island city was a famous buccaneer base

Answer 19

Tortuga

Question 20

buccaneers based here called themselves “The Brethren of the Coast.”

Answer 20

Tortuga