1. Haiti and The
Dominican Republic
Created by
Mr. Raponi

2. Haiti and the
One Island, Dominican
Two Countries Republic share
an island named
_____________
with the west 1/3
of the island
belonging to
_____________
and the eastern
2/3 belonging to
the
______________

3. Haiti won its independence
from
______________ in
1804.
During most of the 1900s,
_______________ ruled
Haiti.
In 1990, Haitian voters
elected Jean Bertrand Aristide
as a Democratic president.
Aristide’s supporters praised
him as “the first
democratically elected leader
of Haiti” and a friend of the

4. Haiti’s 27,750
Land of Haiti square miles
makes Haiti a little
bit smaller than
the state of
______________.
At 174 miles long,
the
_______________
River is the
longest in the
country and is
used for irrigation.

5. Power struggles and civil
Economy of war has left Haiti’s
Haiti economy in ruins.
Haiti’s people are
generally poor and live
in ________________
areas.
Coffee, the cash crop, is
shipped through
___________________,
the capital.

6. The word barbecue
comes from the Spanish
Mmmmm, BBQ! translation of the native
Haitian word barbacoa.
It seems that the
Spaniards, who arrived
just a few years after
Columbus landed in
North America in 1492,
found the Haitian natives
roasting animal meat
over a raised metal
framework.
A fire was built
underneath, and the
flames and smoke would
rise and envelop the
animal meat, giving it
flavor.

7. There are over
People of Haiti
______________
people that live in
Haiti.
The major language
of the country are
French and
______________,
which is a mixture of
French and English.

8. 2010 On January 12, 2010, at
4:53 pm local time. Haiti
Earthquake was struck by a
magnitude-7.0 earthquake,
the country's most severe
earthquake in over 200
years.
The epicenter of the quake
was just outside the Haitian
capital Port-au-Prince.
On February 10th the
Haitian government gave a
confirmed death toll of
230,000. Widespread
damage resulted from the
quake. The capital city was
devastated.

9. More Haiti will need to
be completely
Earthquake rebuilt from the
ground up,
according to a
journalist, as
"even in good
times, Haiti is an
economic
wreck.”
As many as one
million Haitians
were left
homeless.

10. The Dominican
Dominican Republic’s 48,730
Republic square miles
makes it twice the
size of
_______________
The D.R. gained its
independence from
Haiti in
_______________.

11. Lies in the middle of the
Land of the
______________________
D.R. and is subject to severe
storms from June to October.
The D.R. has the highest
mountain in the entire
Caribbean,
______________________
at 10,417 feet.
The longest river in the
Caribbean is also located
here, the
__________________.

12. Economy of
As in most Caribbean
island nations,
the D.R.
__________________
plays a major role in
the economy.
Farmers produce
sugar, coffee, cocoa,
bananas and rice.
Miners produce nickel,
silver and gold.

13. Sugar Farming, Not An Easy Job

14. People Of the __________ million
people living in the
Dominican Republic, about
¼ of the population lives in
the capital city,
_____________________.
_______________ is the
main language and 95% of
the population is Roman
Catholic.
One of the Major activities
within the D.R. is baseball,
it is the national game.