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104 Cards in this Set
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What is the name of the westernmost cordillera (mountain range) of Mexico?
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the Sierra Madre Occidental
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What is the name of the southernmost mountains in Mexico?
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the Sierra Madre del Sur
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What is the name of the easternmost mountains in Mexico?
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the Sierra Madre Oriental
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What is the name of the large Mexican peninsula that juts into the Caribbean Sea?
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the Yucatan Peninsula
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What is the name of the Mexican peninsula that stretches into the Pacific Ocean?
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Baja California
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What is the third largest city in the World?
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Mexico City
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What is the capital of Mexico?
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Ciudad de México (Mexico City)
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How many estados (states) are in Mexico?
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treinta y uno! (31)
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What is the most important natural boundary between Mexico and the US?
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the Rio Grande
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Who is the current president of Mexico?
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Felipe Calderón
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What is the currency of Mexico?
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the Mexican Peso
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What is the population of Mexico?
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111,000,000 (111 million)
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Where does most of Mexico's population live?
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the Mesa Central (the Central Mexican Plateau)
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What did the Spanish rename Mexico?
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"New Spain"
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Who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico?
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Hernando Cortes
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How many countries are in Central America?
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Seven (7)
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What is the name of the priest that declared Mexico's independence from Spain?
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Miguel Hidalgo
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Who was the first Indian president of Mexico?
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Benito Juarez
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Who was president of Mexico during the Texan War for Independence?
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
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Which treaty forced Mexico to cede half of its lands to the US?
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the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Which city is Mexico's leading port city?
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Veracruz
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______ is Mexico's #1 export and source of income.
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Oil
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Mexico is the #1 manufacturer of ________ in the Americas.
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Automobiles
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Ethnically, 70% of Mexicans are ________.
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Mestizos
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What is the most populous Spanish-speaking nation in the world?
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Mexico
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What is the most populous Central American nation?
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Guatemala
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What is the capital of Guatemala?
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Guatemala City
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How many Central American nations were once part of the Mayan Empire?
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Five (5)
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Which Central American nation is a leading exporter of fruit?
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Guatemala
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Which Central American nation is treated like an "outsider" because it was colonized by Great Britain, not Spain?
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Belize
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What is the capital city of Belize?
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Belmopan
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What is the largest city in Belize?
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Belize City
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Which nation was once called "British Honduras"?
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Belize
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What crop is Belize's #1 export?
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Sugar
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Which Central American nation is positioned on the "Ring of Fire"?
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El Salvador
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What is the only Central American nation that does not have a Caribbean coastline?
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El Salvador
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What is the capital of El Salvador?
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San Salvador
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Which currency is used in Guatemala?
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the Quetzal
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What is the smallest yet most populated nation in Central America?
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El Salvador
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What is one of the most important industries in the struggling El Salvadorian economy?
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Clothing manufacturing
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What is the capital of Honduras?
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Tegucigalpa
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Which nation is nicknamed the "Banana Republic" because it is a leading grower of bananas?
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Honduras
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Which currency is used in Honduras?
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the Lempira
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Which is the poorest Central American nation?
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Honduras
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What is the capital of Nicaragua?
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Managua
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What is the currency of Nicaragua?
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the Cordoba
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What is the largest lake in Central America?
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Lake Nicaragua
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What is the name of the African minority that lives in Nicaragua?
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the Garifuna
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What is the name of the colonel that was blamed for the Iran-Contra Affair?
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Oliver North
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What is the name of the group communists that tried to seize power in Nicaragua in the 1980's?
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the Sandinistas
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To stop the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, the American government supported this group of soldiers?
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the Contras
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What are the three leading export of Nicaragua?
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Beef, tobacco, & rum
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What is the capital of Costa Rica?
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San Jose
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What is the currency of Costa Rica?
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the Costa Rican Colon
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Which nation has has the highest GDP in Central America?
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Costa Rica
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What is the most valuable Costa Rican export?
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Coffee
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Which nation is called the "Crossroads of the World"?
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Panama
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What is the capital of Panama?
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Panama City
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Term: narrow strip of land with water on both sides
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Isthmus
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Term: the act of leaving one's country
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Emigration
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Term: the variety of plants and animals in a given environment
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Biodiversity
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Which American president was most responsible for completing the Panama Canal?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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What allows over 14,000 ships to pass from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean annually?
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the Panama Canal
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What is the name of the Spanish conquistador that conquered Panama?
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Vasco de Balboa
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Who was the first European to cross the Isthmus of Panama?
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Vasco de Balboa
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Before the construction of the Panama Canal, Panama was part of this South American nation?
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Columbia
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Which country supported Panamanian independence?
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the USA
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What was the result of the Carter-Torrijos Treaty (1977)?
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Jimmy Carter (US) gave the Panama Canal to Panama.
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Which American president invaded Panama and captured the dictator Manuel Noriega?
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Ronald Reagan
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Which is the most economically developed of all Central American nations?
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Panama
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What is the currency of Panama?
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the Balboa
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What are the island nations of Middle America called?
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the West Indies
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What are the islands of the Bahamas made of?
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Coral
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Which Bahamian island did Christopher Columbus land on in 1492?
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San Salvador
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85% of the Bahamas' population is _______-Bahamian.
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Afro-Bahamian
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What is the staple of the Bahamas' economy?
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Tourism
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Which nation is the most prosperous of the West Indies?
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the Bahamas
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Which language is spoken in the Bahamas?
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English
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What is the name of the tribe of native headhunting cannibals that once lived in the West Indies?
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the Carib Indians
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Which body of water separates the Antilles from South America and Central America?
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the Caribbean Sea
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What is the capital of Cuba?
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Havana
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Which nation is the largest and most populous island in the West Indies?
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Cuba
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What is the name of the small range of mountains in southeastern Cuba?
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the Sierra Maestra
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What is the name of the Cuban dictator that was ousted by communists in 1959?
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Fulgencio Batista
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This communist dictator ruled the Cuban island from 1965 until 2008.
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Fidel Castro
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In his old age, who has Fidel Castro appointed as his successor?
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His brother, Raul Castro
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Which US president unsuccessfully tried to secretly overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961?
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John F. Kennedy
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During this fiasco, a group of soldiers, sent to Cuba to take out Castro were captured by the communists and abandoned by the Americans.
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the "Bay of Pigs"
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Americans prepared for nuclear attack after learning that this communist nation apparently had amassed a stockpile of atomic weapons.
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Cuba (the Cuban Missile Crisis [1962])
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Cuba is famous for making ______. It is illegal to bring any of these into the US.
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Cigars
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Cuba is the world's #2 producer of the metal _________.
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Nickel
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What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
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Santo Domingo
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What is the capital of Haiti?
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Port-au-Prince
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What is the name of the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
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Hispaniola
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Which four islands are part of the Greater Antilles?
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Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, & Puerto Rico
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What is the capital of Puerto Rico?
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San Juan
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What is the capital of Jamaica?
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Kingston
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Puerto Rico is a territory of which nation?
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the United States of America
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Most Puerto Ricans are which ethnicity?
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White
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Which language is spoken in Haiti?
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French (Creole)
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What is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere?
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Haiti
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What are the names of the three major groups of natives that once inhabited the West Indies?
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the Carib, Taino, and Arawak Indians
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When did the United States take Puerto Rico from Spain?
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the Spanish-American War
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Two Puerto Rican nationalists, Griselio Torresola & Oscar Collaza, attempted to assassinate this US president.
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Harry Truman
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