Latin American Government and Economics

Question 1

A government system where the regionalgovernments have more power than the central government

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Confederation

Question 2

A government where a monarch or a dictator is inpower

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Autocracy

Question 3

Communist countries are most closely related to which type of economy?

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command economy

Question 4

Which of these is the closest to having a command economic system

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Cuba

Question 5

A business installs new technology and constructsmore modern factories, this is an example of…

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investment in capital goods

Question 6

A country in Central America that is a FederalRepublic

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Mexico

Question 7

A government system that is ruled by a fewpeople

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Oligarchy

Question 8

9. What Fidel Castro promised the UnitedStates before the Cuban Revolution.

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a. A promise of democracy after the CubanRevolution

Question 9

This government system shares power betweencentral and regional government

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Federal

Question 10

A type of government where people have fewpersonal freedoms

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All of the above

Question 11

A necessary political role for all citizens in ademocracy

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Voting

Question 12

What is true of literacy rate and standard of living in Latin America?

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higher the literacy rate the higher the standardof living

Question 13

The economic systems of Brazil, Mexico, and Canada are similar. They are all……

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examples of mixed closer to market economies

Question 14

An auto mechanic takes a risk to open his own car repair shop. He is an example of ….

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entrepreneurship

Question 15

This Latin American government has adictator

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Cuba

Question 16

Who makes economic decisions in a command economy?

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the government

Question 17

This governmental system allows only the centralgovernment to have control

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Unitary

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