Cuba by Emma Yellow Bird https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78 Emma Yellow Bird en-us 2019-03-04 16:21:06 UTC 2019-03-07 02:33:11 UTC hello@padlet.com 6 Fast Facts eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337535878
  • Cuba has 200 bay and 250 beaches.
  • The game dominoes is the national game in  Cuba.
  • Cuba has one of the highest literacy rate in the world, 99 out of 100 Cubans can read or write.
  • Cuba has one of the best health care systems.
  • Coca-Cola is forbidden to sell in Cuba.
  • Education and medical care are provided for free by the government.
    • ]]>     2019-03-04 16:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337535878     Physical Map of Country eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337536378 21.5218° N, 77.7812° W]]> 2019-03-04 16:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337536378 Map of Latin America eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337537621 Havana Is the capital.]]> 2019-03-04 16:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337537621 Food eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337540292 Ropa Vieja is shredded or pulled steamed beef with vegetables. ]]> 2019-03-04 16:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337540292 Government eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337979238 Cuba has a communist state.  Their leader is Miguel Diaz-Canel.]]> 2019-03-05 16:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/337979238 Language eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338453819 Their official language is Spanish. ]]> 2019-03-06 16:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338453819 Religion eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338456950 The main religion is Roman-Christianity. That is when they believe that Jesus rose from the dead.]]> 2019-03-06 16:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338456950 Climate eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338671163 Cuba's climate is tropical; moderated by trade winds, dry season, and rainy season.]]> 2019-03-07 00:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338671163 Demographics eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338683147 99.8% of Cuba's population are literate. People's life expectancy is 78 years. ]]> 2019-03-07 01:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338683147 History eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338686569  Columbus landed on the island in 1492. In the early 1800s, Cuba's sugarcane industry boomed, requiring massive numbers of black slaves. A simmering independence movement turned into open warfare from 1867 to 1878. Slavery was abolished in 1886. In 1895, the poet José Marti led the struggle that finally ended Spanish rule, thanks largely to U.S. intervention. 
    An 1899 treaty made Cuba an independent republic under U.S. protection. The U.S. occupation, which ended in 1902. The 1901 Platt Amendment allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuba's affairs, which it did four times from 1906 to 1920. Cuba terminated the amendment in 1934.
    In 1933, a group of army officers, including army sergeant Fulgencio Batista, overthrew President Gerardo Machado. Batista became president in 1940, running a corrupt police state.
    In 1956, Fidel Castro Ruz launched a revolution from his camp in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Castro's brother Raul and Ernesto (Ché) Guevara, an Argentine physician, were his top lieutenants. Many anti-Batista landowners supported the rebels. The U.S. ended military aid to Cuba in 1958, and on New Year's Day 1959, Batista fled into exile and Castro took over the government.
    ]]>     2019-03-07 02:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338686569     Landscape eyellowbird34 https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338690130 Cuba's coastal areas are the most mountainous. In the Sierra de los Organos of the far-northwest the landscape is hilly with a few lower mountains. In the southwest the Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that rises sharply from the coast. Located there, Pico Turquino at 6,650 ft (1,999 m), is the highest point in Cuba.]]> 2019-03-07 02:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eyellowbird34/qj3adm618m78/wish/338690130