Government and Economics of Latin America Quiz

This includes service industries that offer services to other businesses and consumers.

• Market Economy

• Secondary Sector

• Tertiary Sector

• Primary Sector

Who elects the national leader in a parliamentary democracy?

• Citizens

• Representatives

• Military

• Wealthy Class

The part of the economy that makes direct use of natural resources.

• Primary Sector

• Secondary Sector

• Tertiary Sector

• Quaternary Sector

What happened to people who spoke out about a dictator in Latin America in the early twentieth century?

• They were allowed to run for office

• They were given a job

• They were listen to

• They were sent to prison

Why did European countries become rich from their Latin American colonies?

• They took raw materials and made manufactured goods to sell back to the colonies.

• They took people to use as slaves in Europe.

• They took raw materials and sold it to other countries.

• They built manufacturing plants in Latin America.

What is the production of a cash crop, including livestock, on a large scale called?

• Family Farms

• Agriculture

• Commercial Farming

• Subsistence Farming

What is the part of the economy that manufactures, or creates, finished goods called

• Command Economy

• Tertiary Sector

• Secondary Sector

• Primary Sector

What is a form of government in which a single person or a small group of people have absolute power called?

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

What did United Fruit do in the 1870’s in Costa Rica to help the county?

• Build Rail Road

• Bought Raw Materials

• Bought Land

• Bought Raw Materials

Economic system where the government controls all of the economic activities.

• Democracy

• Command Economy

• Market Economy

• Communism