History 105 - 20th Century Central America and the Caribbean -- Torres

Your task for the research component of your investigative report assignment it to discover a topic of interest to you related to this class. You have flexibility in selecting your topic. Once you have made selection (or two), you will begin to learn more about your topic based on class discussions and readings, but also based on independent researching using sources you find. To this end, you will learn more by finding background information about your topic to help you narrow your inquiry. Your task is to find 5 sources of the following: 

• 1 background source to learn more about your topic

• 1 primary source + 1 additional primary source (extra credit)

• 2 secondary sources

1. The influence and similarities of the Encomienda system in the formation of El Salvador's military dictatorship in 1931.
   
                                                                           encomienda AND "el salvador" AND dictorship
    

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2. How the Haitian Revolution inspired  and have similarities to the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua during the 1960's.
   
                                                                                haiti AND revolution* AND nicaragua
    

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3. How Cuba's involvement in Angola's oil field reveals the capitalistic nature of Soviet communism.
    

                                                                                    cuba AND angola AND capitalism AND communism