History 251
Latin America Since Independence
Map Quiz Study Sheet

http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/DWilliams/courses/Spring12/HIST251/mapquiz.html

Using a map identical to the Study Map, you will be quizzed at the beginning of lecture on Thursday, February 2, 2012. 

On the quiz, you will be given a list of ten terms drawn from the following list. In order to pass the quiz, you must correctly locate seven or more items.

All passing grades will be given full credit for the map quiz (5% of total course grade). If you do not pass on the first attempt, will have a second opportunity to take the quiz. Please arrange re-tests with your teaching assistant.

NOTE:  The Study Map shows modern political boundaries. When appropriate, you will be asked to indicate where historical boundaries differ from modern boundaries.  

Although many regions of North America north of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo River, Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean ,Puerto Rico, Belize, the Guyanas, and Suriname share many geographic, historical, and demographic commonalities with Latin America, for the purposes of this quiz, Latin America is to be defined as the independent nations of Spanish and Portuguese America.

Study Tips:

After locating the terms that you know off the top of your head, look for unfamiliar places and terms in the maps to be found in the assigned Chasteen textbook Born in Blood and Fire. From there, go to any of the following resources:

• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (2nd edition), a searchable reference tool available full-text in the University Libraries' ResearchPort.
• Google Earth
• Perry Casteñeda Library at the University of Texas
• CIA World Factbook

Demographic indicators are available through the most recent version of the United Nations Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA/CEPAL) Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Reference Section of McKeldin Library contains a number of useful atlases that contain useful geographic and demographic data, including Michael LaRosa and Germán Mejía, An Atlas and Survey of Latin American History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. [G1541.S1 L3 2007]