ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Greater Antillies - CORRECT ANSWER -Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
Panama Capital & currency - CORRECT ANSWER -Ciudad de Panama, Balboa
Dominican Republic - CORRECT ANSWER -Island of Santo Domingo
Agriculture: sugarcane
Capital is Santo Domingo
$ - Domincan Peso
Cuba - CORRECT ANSWER -Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $ Peso
Dictator: Fidel Castro
Puerto Rico - CORRECT ANSWER -unincorporated US,
Capital - San Juan
Us Dollar
Guatemala - CORRECT ANSWER -Ciudad de Guatemala
Agriculture: coffee sugarcane, bananas,
Currency: Quetzal
Capital: Cuidad de Guatemala
El Salvador - CORRECT ANSWER -Smallest country in Central America
Capital: San Salvador
,Civil War
Coffee
Currency: Colon
Costa Rica - CORRECT ANSWER -Capital: San Jose
Currency: Colones
Agriculture: pinapples, cocoa
South American Countries that speak Spanish - CORRECT ANSWER -Chile, Bolivia, Argentina,
Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
Non Spanish Speaking Countries in South America - CORRECT ANSWER -Guyana, Surnam,
Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
Central America - CORRECT ANSWER -Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Panama
Spanish Armada - CORRECT ANSWER -fleet of ships, very strong but was defeated by Queen
Eliz I This started the defeat of the Spanish Empire
Bourbons - CORRECT ANSWER -Big influence in Europe
Carlos II de espana hasta Felipe V
Miguel de Unamuno - CORRECT ANSWER -Spanish author - generation of 98. These artists
affected by moral, political and social crisis in Spain. Their message was that Spain needed to abandon its
traditions and integrate into Europe
Inquisition - CORRECT ANSWER -purpose was to discover and punish heretics and crimes
against blasphemy, bigamy and forbidden books .
Aboloished in 1843
, General Francisco Franco - CORRECT ANSWER -Spanish dictator 1936-1939, defeated the
republic and made spain and absolute dictatorship until his death in 1975
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - CORRECT ANSWER -President of Argentina 1868-1874
Writer and politicial
Horacio Quiroga - CORRECT ANSWER -Uruguay, writer influenced by Edgar Alan Poe
Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER -Estados Unidos de Mexico
Aztecs, Mayans, Chimichecas,
Agriculture mining
Tourism
Nicaragua - CORRECT ANSWER -The first state to declare its independence
Cotton, sugar, banana
Capital- Managua
Currrency-Cordoba
Ecuador - CORRECT ANSWER -1527 was discovered by the Spaniards
Cap: Quito
Currency: Us $
Economy: agriculture-bananas
Colombia - CORRECT ANSWER -South America, South of Panama, It starts the continent of
South America.
Spanish colonized it and called it "nueva granada"
Economy: agriculture (coffee, corn, rice)