1. Most plantation development in the Caribbean region has occurred since the 1940's.
True
False
2. The base of the Zapatistas is
Mexico City
Baja California
Chiapas
Yucatan
3. The dry region of southern Argentina is called _____________________.
The program that makes it possible to build manufacturing assembly plants in northern Mexico is called
maquiladora
ejido
fabrica
economica
4. The focus of Mexican industrial development and government functions, and its indigenous cultural hearth, is
the east coast
Yucatan
The central plateau
Acapulco
5. Under the Monroe Doctrine, the United States
agreed to rule Mexico
took over Cuba
warned European countries not to interfere in Latin America
made Puerto Rico a "commonwealth"
6. Brazil was 90% dependent on foreign energy sources in the mid-1970's and continues to be.
True
False
7. The world's largest river (in volume) is the
Nile
Congo
Amazon
Mississippi
8. The large divisions of the Spanish empire were called
states
provinces
countries
viceroyalties
9. In general, most population in South America lives in the center of the continent.
True
False