Latin America Content Map - Troup 6-12 Teacher Resources

Unit Essential Question: How do geographic, historical, government,
economic, and understandings influence Latin America?
Concept 1:
Geography
Lesson Essential Questions:
1. Where are the major physical
features and nations of Latin
America located? (SS6G1a-b)
2. How do location, climate, and
natural resources affect people in
Latin America? (SS6G3a-b)
(Mexico and Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba;
where people live, how they trade)
3. How have environmental issues
affected Latin America? (SS6G2a) (air
pollution in Mexico City; destruction of the
rain forest in Brazil; oil related pollution in
Venezuela)
Vocabulary 1:
Places
Andes Mountains* Bolivia*
Panama Canal* Brazil*
Amazon River* Colombia*
Gulf of Mexico* Cuba*
Caribbean Sea* Haiti*
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Concept 2:
History
Lesson Essential Questions:
4. Why does Latin America have
such diverse cultural
characteristics? (SS6G4a-b; SS6H2b.)
(ethnic groups, religion, and languages)
5. How did the encounter with the
Spanish impact the Aztec and
Incas? (SS6H1a.)
6. How did the Columbian
Exchange impact Latin America?
(SS6H1b.; SS6H2a.) (decline of indigenous
population, agricultural change, and the
introduction of the horse; African slavery)
7. Why and how did the
independence movement occur in
Latin America? (SS6H2c.)
8. How did the Cuban Revolution
impact Cuba? (SS6H3a.) (Castro’s
impact on: government; U.S/Cuban Relations;
rights of citizens, economy)
9. How did the Zapatista guerilla
movement impact Mexico? (SS6H3b.)
(include introduction to NAFTA and political
outcomes of movement)
Vocabulary 2:
People
Montezuma* Cortes*
Conquistadors** Criollo**
Portuguese* Pizarro*
Atahualpa* Incas*
Emiliano Zapata** Aztecs*
Standard(s): SS6G1a-b; SS6G2a; SS6G3a-b; SS6G4a-b; SS6H2a-c;
SS6H1a-b; SS6H3a-b; SS6CG2a; SS6E1c; SS6E2a-d; SS6E3a-d
Concept 3:
Government/Civics
Lesson Essential Questions:
10. How is a federal-republican
system different from a
dictatorship? (SS6CG2a.) (compare
form of leadership; role of the citizen in
terms of voting and personal freedoms)
Vocabulary 3:
People
Fidel Castro** Raul Castro**
Terms
Dictatorship** Slates**
Compulsory** Suffrage**
Ceremonial** Voluntary**
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Concept 4:
Economics
Lesson Essential Question
11. How are the economic
systems of Cuba and Brazil alike
and different? (SS6E1c.; SS6E2d.)
(Be sure to include that they are located
on a continuum between pure market and
pure command economies, and the
system for exchanging currencies)
12. How do economic factors
influence Latin America?
a. specialization (SS6E2a.)
b. trade barriers (SS6E2b.) (tariffs,
quotas, and embargos)
c. physical/human capital, natural
resources, and GDP (SS6E3a-d)
d. literacy rate (SS6G4c.)
13. How does NAFTA play a role
in trade? (SS6E2c.) (pros and cons)
Vocabulary 4:
goods** services**
Tariffs* Quotas*
Imports** Exports**
Embargos* Exchange*
domestic** foreign**
Pure market* poverty**

Pacific Ocean* Mexico*
Atacama Desert* Panama*
Venezuela*
Sierra Madre Mountains*
Terms
Air pollution* Acid Rain*
Natural Resource Smog**
Oil pollution Rain forest**
Deforestation Vegetation**
Cattle Ranching Atmosphere**
Overcrowding** Restrictions**
Industrialization**
Vehicle emissions**
Monuments/ruins**
Population distribution
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Simon Bolivar* Mestizo**
Miguel Hidalgo* Spanish*
Fidel Castro** French**
Zapatistas** Mulatto**
Toussaint L’Ouverture* Spanish*
Cultural diversity
Events
Cuban Missile Crisis
Treaty of Tordesillas**
Columbian Exchange* (Triangular Trade**)
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA)
Terms
Agricultural dialects**
Revolution Chiapas**
Caste system** Hacienda**
Indigenous people** Diverse**
Roman Empire** Derived**
Ethnic group Dialects**
Roman Catholicism Usurped**
Predominant** Native**
Medieval** Guerilla**
Spaniards** Immunity**
Influenza** Small pox**
Measles** Injustice**
Monotheistic Polytheistic
“Guer” – means war in Spanish**
Romance languages**
Line of Demarcation*
*Vocabulary listed in the GPS Standards
**Vocabulary listed in the Teacher Notes, Frameworks, or other state document
Head of state President**
Chief of State**
Voting rights**
Sovereign power**
Personal freedoms*
Candidacy commissions**
Head of government**
Governments
Republic of Cuba*
Federal Republic*
Federal Senate**
United Mexican States*
Chamber of Deputies**
Federative Republic of Brazil*
Bicameral National Congress**
Unicameral National Assembly
of People’s Power**
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Pure command* Continuum*
Specialization* Investment*
Trade barriers* Currency*
natural resource**
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)*
Human capital (education/training)*
Physical capital/Capital resources
Capital goods (factories, machinery,
and technology)*
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA)*
Mixed economy*
international trade**
Entrepreneurship*
Standard of Living
Literacy Rate*
socialist state**
state-run entities**
Diversification**
informal economy**
privileged class**
non-transparent**
over-specialization**
opportunity cost**
natural resource**
one-crop economy**
socialist state**
real economic growth rate**
regulatory**
privatized**